Regular contributor to AusGamers parabol has written up a simply awesome
step-by-step guide showing you how to easily record videos from Source engine games - including Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, and Counter-Strike Source - and get them online on the YouTubes. The tutorial covers how to install the required video editing software, recording the video from the game, encoding the video and getting it on YouTube with a minimum of fuss.
If you've ever wanted to show off your mad skillz, now is your chance - have a read, start recording and get to uploading!
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Using this tutorial, you actually end up with quite a large audio stream (even bigger than the video stream) It might not be a huge problem for short videos but if you really want to make your files smaller and quicker to upload then encoding to mp3 audio is a must.
By default VirtualDub doesn't provide good quality mp3 encoding settings, that's probably why you found the quality to be bad when you tried encoding to mp3. You need to add a proper codec.
I suggest installing LAME ACM MP3 Codec http://www.free-codecs.com/download/LAME_ACM_Codec.htm (also free)
Then you will have decent quality compression options to encode your audio with.
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i could have been sitting here basking in the glow of all the positive youtube comments i would have no doubt been receiving for my epic spy vids.
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Posted 03:20pm 15/12/08
all those noobs in the comments saying that it must be on easy mode. we just make it look easy (after the first 5 failed attempts lawl) :P
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Posted 11:31pm 15/12/08
I figured it was a YouTube problem, as I mentioned in the tutorial.
I experimented with a range of MP3 bit and sampling rates, which sounded perfectly fine and high quality when listening-to/watching the output encoded movie. After uploading the exact same AVI to YouTube and playing it back though, the audio was just terrible. Never figured out why so I just stuck to keeping the original stream untouched.