Quote from RasmusL :

I agree completely with Becky Rose. I just can't see how a built-in screen capture that you could use while WATCHING a replay (and thus being able to control cameras) is such a big deal to make.. I used to make hobby projects like that in C++ in like half a day when I was into coding
But I do agree that the half day would be better spent improving other aspects of the game.

Encoding itself isnt the big deal and wouldn't add much, the development time would come from the implementation - in making the video output something of use. See it could just stream the live race out from your driving position (on a sufficiently powerful computer) or it could do it during a replay. The time will come in adding features like camera control and editing etc to make the resulting video of use for a purpose of some kind - of which videos in LFS have numerous purposes (from broadcast, to artistic videos, to crash videos, to stunts etc etc), so lots of features would be needed to make the feature actually useful in any way, and that's where a substantial amount of development could take place ... when we already have all the interfaces we need to do all these things anyway.

You don't need any editing capabilities.. Does FRAPS have those? The suggestion as I read it, just goes on outputting a video JUST like FRAPS does. So screen capture and output so some useful format is all it takes.

Quote from RasmusL :

You don't need any editing capabilities.. Does FRAPS have those? The suggestion as I read it, just goes on outputting a video JUST like FRAPS does. So screen capture and output so some useful format is all it takes.

That would defeat the point of having it entirely, as you'd end up with a movie that isn't useable for any purpose. It would need to atleast show external car view, and who here makes a video with the default external car view? Without additional editing and camera functionality then the total gain from including video output would be utterly mute.

It is exact same function as FRAPS, only from LFS instead of proprietary software. It is all I am saying Not very important.