Movie Record function - where are videos stored?

[AndersHP]

Hi y'all!

Having had an unfortunate hotkey set up for "record movie" (input_movie_record in retroarch.cfg) as the same input as another button, I have often by mistake started a movie recording during gameplay - - especially with my kids, since this involves heavy button action! :)

I thought I wanted to check how many gigabytes of video I had been piling on, after the hotkey problem was sorted out - but I cannot find the folder, and cannot find it in the docs either - can anyone help?

[mitu]

I usually find them in the /home/pi folder ($HOME), as .mkv files.

[AndersHP]

Hmm.. No videos there. Will videos only get saved by calling a "finish movie record" command of some sort? Because that would never have happened since records all was started by mistake..?

[mitu]

They should be saved when exiting the game/RetroArch also. Check in \\retropie\configs\all\retroarch\records maybe ?

[CargoRunner]

@andershp I was testing the movie record function on the PC and it does not record a conventional movie. On another forum someone stated it was recording a series of conroller/keyboard actions which are replayed in the emulator. On the PC these "movies" were in the /RetroArch/saves/ folder with a file extension of bsv. They are small files.

[badatmetroid]

If you're running retroarch from the command line, try looking in the folder that you're running the program from. So if you cd ~/games; retroarch then your videos will be saved in ~/games.

Also the relevant setting is recording_output_directory (mine was an empty string which is why it was saving to the pwd)