Why does MAC users get video recording?!

#0 - Sept. 12, 2007, 6:06 p.m.
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I looked under your "under dev" page, and I saw this!
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Mac Movie Capture -- The Mac client is able to capture in-game video to QuickTime movie files using a configurable choice of codec, resolution, and frame rate.


Why dont PC uers get this option???
#14 - Sept. 12, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
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Because Mac OSX has the ability for such things integrated into it.
Windows doesn't.


That is pretty much the reason why, but that doesn't mean the developers aren't looking into a similar feature for WoW running on Windows machines :-)

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It's a guess but I'm fairly certain that's why. I mean I can record pretty happily under Linux, where as I hear windows recording programs can be a little clunky. I guess it's something to do with the UNIX past of Linux and OSX, but as to what it is, I have no idea.


I think you are quite right on this... I think I heard somewhere that Mac machines also have some built-in hardware support for stuff like recording videos, but I am not entirely sure on this however.