Tutorial: How to record your favorite camgirl!

whyamibeer

whyamibeer

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Since I'm not comfortable posting content I figured I'd try and help the community out with tutorials.


Mods: If I'm breaking any rules please tell me what they are so I can fix them. I'll cry a bit if you just delete this thing after I spent an hour writing up a 5 page tutorial.

This tutorial will teach you how to record several girls at the same time and still have each girls audio stream in their file. While you're recording, you won't need to listen to all their shit. This is a universal way of recording anything playing on your PC. If tubedigger ever stops working, this is a sure shot way of recording your content.

Software required:
Virtualbox (Free): https://www.virtualbox.org/ - Allows you to spawn virtual computers on your computer.
Windows 7 (32bit preferred): You can probably do this with other versions as well. If you have access to MSDN I suggest using an enterprise version due to the number of pings it will make to their servers. It will try to activate windows for each virtualbox create. An enterprise version should never get run out of licenses. Using a home version of windows is not recommended as microsoft will eventually deactivate your license. You'd have to call them and lie your ass off to get it reactivated. If you have a hacked version that should work too if it's well hacked.
BandiCam: This is my preferred software for recording. You'll need the full version. The trial will watermark the videos and limit them to 10 minutes long. It is virtualbox friendly and I haven't had many issues with it. You can either buy this yourself (on a per computer basis.. meaning each virtualbox is a computer) for a shitload of money or torrent it. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to link torrents here or not... I'm using Bandisoft Bandicam v1.9.1.419 ML Incl Keymaker-MAZE [TorDigger]. Get this tordigger release from the most popular torrent site on the internets. The keygen seems clean. No viruses detected and I monitored internet traffic after using it. Nothing unusual popped up on Fiddler2. I cannot guarantee the bandicam software working if you get any other release.
Virtualdub (http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/) and handbrake(http://handbrake.fr/) for post processing.
Fiddler2 (or fiddler4) (optional) http://www.telerik.com/download/fiddler

Hardware required: This depends on how many girls you want to record simultaneously. If you want to record 8 girls at the same time, you'll need a lot of memory and an SSD with decent read speeds. I've tried running the virtualboxes off of a 4 disk raid10 and had speed issues, but on an old ssd with slower read speeds, it was far better.

Steps:
  1. Make 1 VirtualBox.
    • Install the software
    • Set the default machine folder by going to file-> preferences. In the general section you can tell it where to put your virtual boxes. This should be a drive with plenty of disk space.
    • Make a new virtual box by clicking the New button. Select your windows version (win 7 preferred).
    • When figuring out how much memory to give it, factor in how many girls you want to be able to record at the same time. I have 32gb of ram and I wanted about 10 boxes, so I gave each one 1.5gb of ram, which leaves 17gb of ram left your my main PC. You probably don't need this much though. You can experiment with it to find the magic number for your PC. One thing to note is that this software will NOT use your page file. If it needs more ram and you don't have any left, it will BSOD.
    • On the next screens, create a virtual hard drive with whatever file format you want. I used the default VDI format. Have it dynamically allocate the hard drive space so it won't use up as much disk space right off the bat. Select where you want the file to be located. If you followed the directions so far it will default to the location you already selected. I gave mine 35gb of disk space. Since it's dynamically allocated it wont eat all that, but if you do something stupid it has room to expand.
    • You should now have completed that wizard and have a virtualbox in the left window on your screen.
    • Before you boot it up, right click it and go to it's settings. In here you can configure all sorts of stuff. I recommend going to the system section, then to the processor tab and giving the box a second CPU to work with. In order to be able to take advantage of more than 1 processors, you may need to go into your BIOS and activate some features there. I believe you need to go to the "Acceleration" tab and check both of those boxes as well. If you try to boot your virtual box up and it fails, you either don't have a motherboard which supports these features or it isn't enabled. Go back and uncheck the acceleration tab items and put it back to 1 CPU for now.
    • Also in the audio section, make sure audio is enabled with the driver set to Windows DirectSound and the controller as the Intel HD Audio controller. This is how mine is setup. Not sure if it will work with different settings.
    • In the system section => motherboard tab, I've got the chipset set to PIIX3 and I enabled I/O APIC
    • Install windows on your virtual box. Open the virtualbox and it will ask where the install CD is. You can point it to a drive or a drive image (ISO) file.
  2. Now that windows is installed, activate windows if you have to. You'll probably get a tray notification asking you to install the virtualbox additions. You can do this by inserting the virtual CD on the Devices menu option. I highly recommend this. Reboot and the box should perform a bit better.
  3. Setup your shared folder locations by going to the device menu option. I set a read only one for my biggest drive and a second one to an empty folder with read/write access. Make them auto mount and permanent. The second one is where you're going to be saving your streams to.
  4. You need to set it up with the software you think you'll be using on it. It's much easier to do it now than later on in this tutorial. I installed virus protection on mine (pick something light weight if you chose to install this or your boot times will suck), a download manager, notepad++, chrome, firefox, VLC, Fiddler4, torrent software, and VPN software. Properly configure everything now. (ie, download locations, passwords you want stored on the box (like MFC account info), etc)
  5. Finally, install bandicam, BUT USE MY INSTRUCTIONS BELOW. NOT THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE README. You will have problems if you follow their instructions.
    • Disconnect yourself from the internet. (disable the network card in the virtualbox)
    • Install the software with the EXE from in the torrent.
    • Exit the software.
    • Use the keygen (start it as an admin).
    • Add the following to the end of the following file: Folder: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc; File is "hosts" no file extension.

      127.0.0.1 bandicam.com
      127.0.0.1 www.bandicam.com
      127.0.0.1 ssl.bandisoft.com
      127.0.0.1 www.bandisoft.com
      1. Note: You probably will not be able to edit this file directly. Copy it to your desktop, make the changes, save it, ensure there is no file extension, and dump it back to the etc folder.
      2. This will redirect traffic to those websites to your own computer so it cannot perform update checks or see if you've got a legit version of the software.
      3. Without this step, the software will check if you've got a legit version of the software every time you start it up, and sometimes when you switch tabs inside it. You need these sites to be firewalled or blocked via the hosts file.
    • Reboot the virtualbox to ensure the new hosts file takes effect.
    • Make sure bandicam is not running after the reboot, open Fiddler if you want to monitor your network traffic, and re-enable your virtual box's network card.
    • Try going to bandicam.com and bandisoft.com. Neither should load. If you have fiddler running they should come up as red lines. If they are red, you're good to go. If not, you're going to need to recrack the software every time you load it...
    • Open Bandicam. It should be registered. If you have fiddler running, you should see it tried to ping bandicam.com to see if it has the most up to date version of the software and bandisoft.com over an ssl connection to see if you've got a hacked version. Both should be red rows meaning it failed to check in with the mothership.
    • Open bandicam and close it a few times. reboot your computer and open it a few times.. make sure it's not coming back up as unregistered or you're going to have a bad time.
  6. Test out bandicam on MFC. Make sure it actually works.
    1. Open Bandicam
    2. On the general tab, point it to the shared folder you created before. Location for mine is "\\VBOXSVR\vBoxShares\recorded".
    3. On the general tab, you can tell bandicam to split the files up based on length of time or file size if you want. I always leave this disabled. It's easier to split the files up later than merge them.
    4. On the Video tab, click the settings link in the Record section. Make sure it's set to record sound. Select Win7 Sound (WASAPI) as your primary sound card. Click OK.
    5. On the video tab, click the settings link in the Format section. I chose XVID (VRB based and optimization set to Faster encoding speed). If you don't have an xvid option ya might need to install it. Set the quality to 100 and the FPS to 23.976 (or anything around there) Higher doesn't always mean better. The stream you're getting from MFC isn't great so setting it higher than this number probably won't help you. For the audio section, I set mine to mono with a frequency of 48000. Codec of MPEG-1 L2. Bitrate of 160. If you test this out and you don't have audio you can try changing this to PCM.
    6. On the about tab, click the "update check". This will launch a new window which allows you to disable the update check. The previous steps should prevent it from ever succeeding, but you might as well turn it off.
    7. You should be set to test it now. Load up MFC, find your favorite model, and join their channel. Make sure they have audio playing and you can hear it.
    8. In bandicam, click the target button in the upper left. Choose the rectangle on screen option and move the rectangle to the model cam. I normally make the model's window a little bigger. Round 470x352 or so.
    9. When you're happy with the window. Go back to bandicam and click the record button in the top right. You can mute the virtual box's speakers now and it should still record the audio just fine.
    10. After it's recorded for a minute or two. Stop the recording. Find the file outside your virtualbox and play it. Make sure it has sound and everything looks right.
    11. This is what works for me.. If it doesn't work for you, you'll need to diagnose the problem.
  7. At this point, make sure you've got the box setup how you'd like. You're going to start cloning soon so if you want to make changes in the future and you have 10 nodes, you'll have to do it 10 times.
  8. Shut down the virtualbox.
  9. Make sure the snapshot folder is set to the location you want it to be at. This will grow to be 20+ gigs and I believe the default location is the C drive. You can confirm this location by right clicking your box on the manager and going to settings. On the default section (general), there should be an advanced tab. Make sure this is set to the drive you want it to be. (ideal location is [your default location you selected in step 2] + [name of your virtualbox] + [new folder called "Snapshot"]. If you changed this setting. click OK and restart the virtual box manager.
  10. Time to start cloning! Right click your virtual box and click "Clone". Give it a new name. I always check the reinitialize MAC addresses, though I'm not sure if it's needed. Click next. Your options here are Full or Linked. I choose linked to save on disk space.
    • Note: If you delete a linked clone, the data won't be completely gone. You'll need to select the original box you linked it from and click on the "Snapshots" option in the upper right. Right click the snapshot for the node you deleted and delete the snapshot as well.
You now have virtual boxes setup to record models. Only record 1 model per virtualbox if you want the sound to carry over. You can minimize the virtual boxes and it will still record everything.

Get to work and start posting the videos here!


Edit: If someone wants to download the bandicam software and upload it to one of our preferred file share sites, I'll gladly post that link here to make it easier for our members to access it.
 
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whyamibeer

whyamibeer

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Post processing.



Outside the virtualboxes, install Virtualdub and Handbrake (links in previous post). Virtualdub might require you to install codecs before you can use it properly. Recommended codecs are XVID and the LAME audio codec if you need to mess with the sound.

Compressing the easy way:
At the very least, run the file through Handbrake on the default settings. This will compress the file down to a more reasonable size without impacting quality much at all. It should cut the file size down to half of what it was before. Play the files side by side and see if you even notice a difference. I never can.



More advanced options -

Cropping the video:
If your record window wasn't perfect and you want to crop it a bit, follow these steps:

  1. Load the file into virtualdub
  2. On the video menu item, go to the filter option.
  3. Add a null transform filter and click OK.
  4. Now with the null transform selected, click the "Cropping..." option a few buttons below the Add button.
  5. Crop it however you'd like and click OK a few time
  6. On the videos menu item, click compression. I go with XVID. Click configur and set the profile to xvid home, encoding typoe to single pass, and the target quantizer to 1.6 or so. Click OK a few times.
  7. Now go to file => save as avi, and save the edited file



Cutting out periods when the model takes a shit, goes to private shows and you didn't notice, or goes offline:
  1. Load the file into virtualdub
  2. Under video, set it to direct stream copy.
  3. Now, you see that bar under the video? You can use that to delete sections of the file.
  4. To do this, move the bar to the starting point you want to delete. All the buttons look similar here... You want to click the full black half arrow thing pointing to the left. It's the second right most button on the bottom row of buttons.
  5. Now when you move the horizontal video time bar thinger to the right, you should see it marked your starting point. Find the end point for what you want to delete and click the button directly to the right of the one you previously hit. This should select a time frame of the video
  6. Click the delete button and that part of the video will not be present after you save the file.
  7. Repeat the steps until you've cut out everything you want to cut out.
  8. Now go to file => save as avi, and save the edited file
Since you did a direct stream copy, this will not effect the video quality in the slightest.


I recommend doing all your edits in virtualdub before running it through handbrake to maintain maximum quality.
 
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whyamibeer

whyamibeer

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Don_Lorenzo said:
Great tutorial.

What kind of cpu are you using and what % of CPU Activity did it have when you were recording?
Click to expand...
I've got a Intel 3770K atm. The bandicam process takes up very little CPU. It's normally at about 1% (remember this is inside a virtual box which only has 2 CPUs allocated to it. It's really 1/4th of 1%). Since it's inside a virtualbox though, there's a decent amount of overhead. The entire virtualbox fluctuates between 3% and 10% of my CPU.
 
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justhangingout

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Thank you very much, whyamibeer!

This is just the kind of simple step-by-step tutorial for this that I have been searching for. Very helpful and it's always great to find someone who is willing to share his/her tech knowledge.
 
ThePuma

ThePuma

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thanks a TON for this.....

I have a couple PC I wanna throw at this....

Installed Win7 Pro 32bit... damn, took me forever to find my keys.. only use 64bit
Setup VirtualBox(es)
Installed ALL needed Browsers and Tools...
TRIED to install bandicam..
it's giving me a NON ADMIN error on installation ONLY on the VB machines...
Locally, intstalled and running like a champ on the standard OS configuration


Question for you mrBeer... haha

Did you make ONE VB and then clone the other Nine on your machine?
As soon as I can get Bandicam working (or maybe I'll just use FastStone Capture)..

I'll replicated the VirtualBoxes... then Image it to another PC as well...

I was also curious about a couple items you mentioned

ONE: Do you use some sort of scheduling software to start the capture when ====>> target logs online
TWO: You made it seem as through Bandicam was pulling the feed ===> looks to me like it screencaps like 99% of the others (did I fuck up?)

Have a TON of pc's that I can dedicate to this.... 6 or 8 if it worked easily enough... haha..
LOVE:
implementing workarounds, leveraging items for unitended use..
and pretty chicks crying out in pleasure... PERFECT COMBO eh?


please provide what feedback you can, don't worry about step by step or overly simplifying....

thanks again

The Puma
 
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