Is this app exist?

[marc5532]

Hi, i'm searching an app that continually records video in Ram (or HD) before you hit the record button. Then, when you click on RECORD, the app makes a file that begin some seconds or minutes before you hit the Record button (for never miss the beginning).

Is this exist? Thank.

[lordsmurf]

Probably not, no.

[jimmalenko]

AFAIK all programs only record ONCE you hit the Record button. After all, computer programs are programmed by humans - there is no possible way that AI could detect that you are planning on recording something, and then know eactly when the feature starts, and then decide that you've been tardy in pressing the Record button. It's a nice thought, but I don't think it will happen

The solution to your problem is to hit the Record button before the beginning

[lumis]

sounds kind of like tivo.. if you turn on the tv and watch the show that is already on, but you've missed the first 5 minutes you can tell it to record and it will record the entire show (as long as the duration that you missed does not exceed its "rewind/replay live tv" function).

[jimmalenko]

There's Scheduled Tasks in Windows, and with a bit of creativity in macro programs like Macro Magic, you can create a Task to start recording "automatically" at a given time, but this is still user-driven to set it up.

[marc5532]

Impossible??? no ! Imagine if the app continually records in a loop of one minute (in hidden mode), then you click on the Record button and the app define a file that start in this one minute loop (at the oldiest time available in the loop): You have a file that really begins one minute before you hit the record button. Don't know if you understand me (my English is not perfect) but I know there's some audio app which can do that. But for this, the app need to continually records in a loop (Ram or HD) before you click the RECORD button. Do you understand me?

[jimmalenko]

I understand perfectly ... but the app doesn't exist for video

... and for the app to continually record for one minute, there must be some action on the user's part to start it running in the first place (be it clicking a button, or setting up a task or a batch file to co-ordinate it all).

[marc5532]

there must be some action on the user's part to start it running in the first place

Yes !

If this app doesn't exist in software, is it possible to find this function on a standalone DVD recorder ?

[jimmalenko]

there must be some action on the user's part to start it running in the first place

Yes !

So why not just click the Record button (once) when you truly want it to start encoding ???

I only say that because I'm pretty sure that there ins't an app that can do what you want. You could possibly write a batch file that could interact with an app to do this sort of functionality.

[marc5532]

So why not just click the Record button (once) when you truly want it to start encoding ???

This is ok for recording movies, but when I'm recording musical video clips, it's a lot more practical when you don't know what is the next clip.

[jimmalenko]

Record the whole show, then edit later ?

Or press the record button when you know a song is ending, and if the next song is crap, stop it ???

[alsyed]

there use to be a loop recorder for audio exactly like this.

on the hdd recorders we have here in nz, some models will do this exactly, timeslipping, when the machine is on, it is recording to the hdd when you are not using it... so that anything in the preset time loop will be on hdd at any one point in time.


I can imagine software doing this quite nicely, when you run the software, it begins recording in the background, for a defined period of time, then it basically loops back to the beginning of the file and fills it up again. If you came back and saw the ending of the video clip you wanted, you just press "save current recording loop and begin new file at end of loop" or something like that.

[chemame]

ok, I'm sure I risk serious flamage for this post,... :P

but I do this ALL THE TIME.

And before I say it, I'll say up front that I know it's not exactly what was asked for... I'm just saying that I have the same need as marc5532, and found a solution, and I use it daily.

AND I'M SURE THERE'S OTHER HARDWARE/SOFTWARE that will accomplish this same goal...

I have an ATI AIW Radeon 9600, which comes with ATI Multimedia Center, which has a built-in TV-ON-DEMAND feature (think: TIVO). And with TV-ON-DEMAND, it is of course always recording to a buffer, whether I care or not, whether I use it or not. So if I turn on the TV and find that I'm 10 minutes into someshoworanother, I can back up and catch it from the beginning.

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL... because I can also export my TV-ON-DEMAND buffer to MPEG-2 anytime I want.

So... seeing as I can set my T-O-D buffer really high (I use 3 hours, not sure what the upper limit is), and I leave T-O-D on all the time, I have found that as long as the signal was coming to my TV sometime in the past 3 hours, I recorded it, and can save it off as an MPEG. Granted, it's a 3 hour MPEG, so I have to chop out what I want with an editor, but it works (now if I could export only the time segment I wanted, THAT would be awesome)

OK.. anyway... is this pretty much what he's after?

Chemame