Vita Recorder

Vita Recorder
Vita Recorder
General
Author	Rinnegatamante
Type	Plugins
Version	0.1.1
License	GPL-3.0
Last Updated	2021/04/22
Links
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Vita Recorder is a plugin that allows to record video clips during your play sessions.

The code is based off VITA2PC at which has been applied improvements and the streaming feature has been replaced with file recording.

The plugin was entered into the KyûHEN Homebrew Contest (Utility, 1st place).

Features

Allows to record clips of unlimited duration (given enough free storage is available).
Records clips in RAW mjpeg (can be opened on Windows Media Player and other popular video players as well as can be easily converted to more common formats on PC).
Allows to downscale on CPU the output to 480x272 allowing for faster transcoding.
Performs hw encoding in MJPEG thanks to sceJpegEncoder when possible. When resources are not enough, libjpeg-turbo is used instead, as fallback, for software encoding.
Allows to perform both asynchronous and synchronous recording (The first won't affect game performances but you may end up having some artifacts or some missing frames, the latter will lower game performances but will produce frame perfect clips).
Allows to apply frameskip on synchronous recording.

Installation

Put VitaRecorder.suprx in your tai folder (ux0 or ur0).

Add the plugin under a section for the game you want to use it for (eg *GTAVCECTY) in your config.txt file. (Alternatively you can place it under *ALL in a section where main is disabled (check down for an example) but some apps may crash with this due to the resources requirements).

If you want to use this plugin on commercial games, you'll need to install ioPlus as well by adding it in your *KERNEL section in your config.txt.

Here's an example of a config.txt with the plugin installed in *ALL section

*KERNEL
ux0:tai/PSVshell.skprx
ux0:tai/AnalogsEnhancer.skprx
ux0:tai/fd_fix.skprx
ux0:tai/kubridge.skprx
#ux0:tai/gxmdbg.skprx
ux0:tai/ioplus.skprx
*ALL
ux0:tai/WDNR.suprx
*main
ux0:tai/pngshot.suprx
ur0:tai/henkaku.suprx
*!main
*ALL
ux0:tai/VitaRecorder.suprx
*NPXS10015
ur0:tai/henkaku.suprx
*NPXS10016
ur0:tai/henkaku.suprx

User guide

The output videos can be found in ux0:data named as vid_TITLEID_DATE_TIME.mjpg.

These files are raw mjpeg data and can be played with several video players such as ffplay or WMP.

You can also use ffmpeg to convert them in more popular MP4 videos with a command like this (Note: This creates videos with fixed 25 fps):

ffmpeg -i vid_GTAVCECTY-17_04_2021-21_02_33.mjpg -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 4000k -c:v libx264 vid_GTAVCECTY-17_04_2021-21_02_33.mp4

Controls

L+Select - Open the Config Menu

L+Start - Start/Stop Recording (shortcut)

Triangle - Close Config Menu (when in Config Menu)

Screenshots

Media

Vita Recorder v.0.1.1 - PCSC00044 - Flowery (kood k)

Known issues

Using Best or High video quality may result in empty videos being created (That's cause not enough resources are available for the encoder).
Games with variable resolution may acy weirdly since there's no internal fixed rescaling and mjpeg doesn't support variable resolution between frames. (eg: Everybody's Golf).
System apps and Livearea are not supported (plan for those is to handle them directly with the future kernel version of the plugin instead of messing with SceSharedFb in user space).

Changelog

v0.1.1

Added a check to disable the plugin on system apps.

v0.1

First Release.

Credits

Special thanks to the distinguished patroners for their awesome support:

@Sarkies_Proxy
Badmanwazzy37
Colin VanBuren
drd7of14
Freddy Parra
Max
Tain Sueiras
The Vita3K Project
Titi Clash

External links

KyûHEN Homebrew Contest - https://kyuhen.customprotocol.com/en/submissions/vita_recorder/
GitHub - https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/Vita-Recorder
VitaDB - https://vitadb.rinnegatamante.it/#/info/660
Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/mvinib/release_vita_recorder_record_video_clips_while/