World’s First 1080p Embedded 120fps Video Game Recording

Posted Aug 23, 2013 by in: Exclusives HFR Video

UPDATE 2021: For more recent information, see Ultra HFR FAQ
IMPORTANT: Below video is for “true 120Hz” gaming monitors, which can do PC games at 120fps at 120Hz. See Official 120Hz Monitor List.

EXCLUSIVE 2013: Hypermatrix of www.120hz.net has successfully created full screen video game play recordings at 120 frames per second! Via forum collaboration between Blur Busters and 120hz.net, Battlefield 3 game play recordings in true HFR 120fps video!

World’s First 1080p 120fps Embedded Video Game Recording (2013):

After pressing play, click the Full Screen button!
If video does not play smoothly, right click to save the video, to play locally.

Prerequisites: 120Hz monitor or TV supporting 120Hz from PC with a fast GPU and a supported player (MPC-HC for 120fps on GeForce, VLC for 120fps on Radeon), or browser (Chrome, FF 23+ or IE10+) on Windows 7/8.

About Mark Rejhon

Also known as Chief Blur Buster. Founder of Blur Busters. Inventor of TestUFO. Read more about him on the About Mark page.

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quaixor
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quaixor

High quality video worked great in MPC.

What program was used to capture this? I can capture at 120hz in FRAPS but only at half resolution.

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10 years 7 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

Here’s the info:

1. Recording:
For 1920x1080p at 120fps, you need SSD RAID 0 or a RAM drive. About 1 gigabyte/second is required, including overhead room. A pair of 128GB SSD’s capable of >500MBytes/sec can be had for under $200. Alternatively, a computer with 16GB RAM can easily give you a 12GB RAM drive (as a temporary drive letter). 12 gigabytes records about 20 seconds of 1080p gameplay at 120fps.

2. Processing:
Hypermatrix says: “Encoded using Handbrake and x264 codec. The 100mb file was at 30mbps, constant framerate, “slow” encoding speed, h264 profile set to “high” and level set to 5.1. For the second file which comes in at around 30MB, it was at 10mbps, constant framerate, “placebo” encoding speed, double pass, h264 profile at “Main” and h264 level 4.0.”

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10 years 7 months ago
quaixor
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quaixor

Btw, he’s my test of 120fps capture at half res (5 mins):

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49891065/l4d2_120fps.avi

(note it’s actually an .mp4 file not avi)

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10 years 7 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

Good one with full-framerate fluidity!

If you can, try to make MP4 files next time — those are compatible with players built into web browsers. Chrome, IE, and FireFox are able to play MP4 files directly inside the web browser, and also in a streaming manner too.

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10 years 7 months ago
quaixor
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quaixor

It was actually an mp4 file named incorrectly. Here it is renamed:

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49891065/l4d2_120fps.mp4

Plays great in Chrome at full 120fps!

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10 years 7 months ago
quaixor
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quaixor

I see. Handbrake is the key here. In my case FRAPs isn’t limited by HDD write speed but by the CPU. It seems to parallellize poorly and doesn’t use all available CPU cores. With x264 you can spawn as many threads as you want and it will use all of them.

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10 years 7 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

Post by y2kcamaross of Overclock.net:

I just watched it, and it was amazing, I’ve never seen such fluid motion in video form on a browser!

Post by Arc0s of Overclock.net:

Looks amazing, excellent fluidity and smoothness; good job md! :thumb:

Post by alextheawesome of Overclock.net:

Sweet Jeebus, this looks incredible.

Post by Vega of HardForum:

Great work as always Mark. That video looks wonderfully smooth! Death to 60 Hz!

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10 years 7 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

The Blur Busters Squad has tested several video players a Geforce GTX680:

— SUCCESS: Media Player Classic Home Cinema; perfect playback
— SUCCESS: Internet Explorer 10; perfect playback (but let it buffer first)
— SUCCESS: FireFox 24+ Beta; usually smooth playback
— SUCCESS: Windows Media Player; usually smooth playback
— SUCCESS: (partial) Google Chrome; sometimes pauses, sometimes perfect.
— UNTESTED: Safari
— FAIL: Opera
— FAIL: VLC Media Player (apparently, this works on AMD well)

Feel free to post your system specs and GPU, as we’d love to hear what systems are capable of playing these video files!

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10 years 7 months ago
rservello
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rservello

iPhone 5s plays back perfectly due to its 120hz refresh.

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10 years 6 months ago
rikyy
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rikyy

The iPhone 5s is not 120hz, the only 120 thing is capable of is taking videos at 120fps, which will just be 30fps slow motion videos.

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10 years 2 months ago
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