About 20 years ago there was a similar problem with demoscene creations. It was hard to capture demos in realtime in all their glory. So one guy created a tool[1] that waited for a frame render and presented proper time to demo so that frames would be paced properly. "All popular ways of getting time into the program are wrapped aswell - timeGetTime, QueryPerformanceCounter, you name it. This is necessary so .kkapture can make the program think it runs at a fixed framerate (whatever you specified)."

[1] https://www.farbrausch.de/~fg/kkapture/

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fnordian_slip 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's rather off-topic, but the linked blog is by the guy who made .kkrieger, the tiny first-person shooter (only 96kB) in the early 2000s. Though the website for it is now gone, as .theprodukkt doesn't exist anymore, apparently. Nice to see his other stuff, didn't think to look at the time.

	▲	xnx 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		.kkrieger https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14409210

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future_crew_fan 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> "one guy" sir, that's no way to refer to farbrausch

here is their Breakpoint 2007 demo, a 177 Kb executable including 3d assets and textures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqu_IpkOYBg

	▲	yetihehe 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I know them since fr08 . But AFAIK kkapture was started and maintained mostly by ryg. And the demo you linked is my favorite from them.

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whynotmaybe 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's still used in the gaming industry but fir the opposite, you can go faster than time.

Some enterprise software also have it, mainly for testing and they have lint tools that check that you never use Date.now()

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calvinmorrison 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Dont forget .gif webcam streams! Just keep sending new frames!

	▲	jacquesm an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed. The problem with that was that the browser would cache the whole bloody stream and that quickly led to issues. That's why we switched to JPEG, which also greatly improved the image quality over the GIF format, which really wasn't designed for dealing with camera generated images.