
Note that it will only contain your audio! The video file is created separately by ffmpeg.
Select the path for the avi file as usual. Make sure that you install both the 32- and 64-bit versions if you are using older emulators alongside newer ones. If you don't, you didn't install it correctly. You should see Pipe Codec in the list now. Start up an emulator that uses VFW for dumping, and starting dumping any kind of video so that the VFW codec selection dialog appears. pipedec file to %AppData%\pipedec (create the folder if it's not there). Set the avi file path to where you want your video created. pipedec in a text editor and replace the ffmpeg path with where you put ffmpeg.exe. For a 64-bit OS you can just grab it from Take ffmpeg.exe according to the bitness of your Operating System. If you simply put %WinDir%\SysWoW64 into Explorer address bar it should instantly bring you there. %WinDir% means your Windows directory, usually it's C:\Windows. If that file fails to get moved there, copy it manually. It should install pipedec.dll into %WinDir%\SysWoW64.
If you're running a 32-bit emulator (like mupen64) on a 64-bit OS, execute the file called register pipedec (32 bit on 64 bit system).reg.Install pipedec according to the instructions that come in the download.Download a compiled version of pipedec:.
The following instructions will set up pipedec to use FFmpeg to encode using the lossless UtVideo codec as an example ( take the decoder here), but pipedec can be configured to pipe video to any encoder you want. In cases where avoiding these splits is desirable (for instance, emulators that don't handle the split well and desync the audio/video), or where using a more modern codec (like lossless h.264) is preferable to VFW codecs, pipedec can be used.
Many of the emulators listed here dump video via VFW codecs, and must split those videos at 2GB intervals due to limitations in the aging technology. Making the video files AviSynth-compatible using VirtualDub.
Deinterlacing (PSX, N64 with AngryLion, Saturn). Non-VFW Codecs via pipedec (Windows only).