Recording player's communications

[bh_letters]

Hi all

I am trying to record player's communication in a multi-player half-life game. Is it possible to record players communication along with the game video? I also need to record the game video for scoring purposes.

What are software that I need to download for these purposes?

Thanks for your time

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

What do you mean with "player's communications" ?
Text chat or HLVoice audio ?

You can keep track of the text chat that players send each others, but I'm not sure you can record the audio chat. Perhaps an "admin plugin" coder can confirm ?

[bh_letters]

I want to record HLVoice audio.

[Fiber_Optic]

You can try a tape recorder near your speakers... :)

[bh_letters]

I want to know if there is a way to record communications audio along with the video using record demoname command.

Thank you

[botman]

No, there isn't. The audio isn't saved along with demos and isn't accessible to anything but the engine code. You can't intercept, monitor or save the voice audio data.

botman

[Terran]

We've done this back in CS 1.5 days (never tried this with CS 1.6). You had to set "voice_enable 1" during record AND playback, nothing else was required.

A regular player at my server recorded a demo with ingame voice to document the misbehavior of another player - kind of funny :-)
One of my co-admins watched the demo and wondered why we all had so much fun with it - he simply had deactiveted his ingame voice...