Best way to record all 10 POVs and match them to input commands

[JanEricNitschke]

I need to get a ton of POV recording + command input pairs. I already know how to get the tick level command inputs using https://github.com/LaihoE/demoparser and i know i can get recordings via the csdm, but i am not sure what the best way is to get full recordings for all 10 POVs in a demo and also how to time/match them against the tick level inputs.

Does anyone have a good idea here?

[JanEricNitschke]

I think a good way is to probably just get individual sequences for each round/player, there i would always have a start/end tick which i can match against what i get from the demo parser. Then id just need to also match each clip/sequence to the relevant player and the transforation from tick to second should be trivial just /64.

THe main question then would be if there is a trivial CLI script or something that i can write that just generates all 10 POV videos without me having to manually click through all of them

[akiver]

I think the fastest way right now is to use the GUI.
Open the “Generate player’s sequences” dialog, select all players, select all rounds, and choose the Round event. That will batch-generate a separate video per player per round.

An other way will be write a script that retrieve ticks and steamids from the database (SQL queries) and then invoke the CLI with the --focus-player flag. The downside is that it will restart the game at each invokation which slow down the process.

[JanEricNitschke]

Thanks a ton for the quick reply! I need to manually run a parser anyway to get the inputs that each player has made. So i think it would be fine to also use that to retrieve the data needed to use the CLI?

Do you have a quick example what data i need exactly and how i need to invoke the CLI for this?

The CLI would have the advantage that i could write a script that just goes through tons of demos over night without manual input from my side.

[akiver]

I guess for your use case you need the rounds start/end ticks and all players steamids.

The script would loop through all demos, parse it to retrieve inputs, steamids and ticks.
Then for each steamid, loop through all rounds and run the cli with csdm video "C:\path\to\demo.dem" startTick endTick --focus-player steamID.

You could also use the above query to retrieve information (but still need to parse the demo to get inputs):

SELECT
	matches.demo_path,
	steam_id,
	number AS ROUND,
	start_tick,
	end_tick
FROM
	players
	JOIN matches ON matches.checksum = players.match_checksum
	JOIN rounds ON players.match_checksum = rounds.match_checksum
-- WHERE matches.demo_path IN('C:/path1.dem', 'C:/path2.dem')
GROUP BY
	checksum,
	demo_path,
	steam_id,
	start_tick,
	end_tick,
	ROUND
ORDER BY
	checksum,
	rounds."number";

Then run the cli for each row.