LoL needs an in-house recording solution

DefenderOfFaith·2/18/2015, 10:31:40 AM·1 votes·765 views

Relying on community projects like Lolrecorder and Baron Replays is inappropriate, and these tool developers are just volunteers who are not privy to updates that may effect their programs.

At the moment, neither recording tool is functional for self-recording. Riot needs to ship spectate recording with their own client.

It is no longer the fledgling moba of many years past. Consider it growing pains. You have outearned Blizzard. You're rich. Please alot the resources for this.

EDIT:

I'm not referring to video recording, like FRAPS. Rather replay files that can be played via the spectate tool.

2 Comments

CaptainTatertits2/18/2015, 10:44:32 AM1 votes

I would much prefer game saves like StarCraft had. just a log of the game in a small file that you can share. Recording takes incredible amounts of space. I have terabytes of raw video atm. Processing/editing takes a lot of time :/ Plus, the two best solutions are the GPU-based ones, but the AMD one (raptr) is still crap ATM- it very often crashes and takes gigabytes of data with it. The nVidia one (i forget the name) is much better, but my main card is an AMD. So it is a bit annoying to physically put back in my old 660ti just to record reliably. So yeah, it would be nice to have an in-house gpu-based recording option that is stable with League without workarounds. However, AMD and nVidia would each need their own code for it. So for League to code for all that, and make two separate versions... that just isn't going to happen.

It would be very nice to be able to save games, though. And then maybe be able to edit just the timestamps with {A} - {B} segments and then save that file to record video from. That way the only big files are the output video itself, and not terabytes of raw video, 95% of which will be cut out anyway.

DefenderOfFaith2/18/2015, 10:59:45 AM1 votes

I agree totally Cpt Lemmiwinks. Starcraft is an excellent implementation.

edit: I think even Baron Replays uses replay files, they are larger than I like, but thankfully not full video files. If it came to that, I'd just use my fraps.

Maybe I wasn't clear in my original post but I was never referring to video recording.