Question Windows 10: Using XBox game bar features from Unity application

Hey,

we are looking for an easy way to record sessions for our unity applications on Windows 10. There is the XBox game bar feature that can be accessed via hotkeys (Win + R), (Win + Alt + G).

I there a way to utilize those functions directly (programatically) from unity without using the hotkeys?

The gamebar is part of the windows.media.capture api:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.media.capture

I'm not sure if it is possible to access this api from within unity. If anybody could provide some infos on this topic it would be great.

best regards,
Andreas

 

No idea about the game bar approach. But another avenue perhaps.... Not sure if you can use the Unity Recorder in Timelines somehow.

Gotchas: if you are playing a game it can be a bit slow (MP4 can have low video quality, WebM can slow down game play). Image sequence is where it writes an image file per frame, which you can use an external tool to turn into a video file. I have not checked that performance, but might be an option without using Timeline (you write code to save a file on disk per frame).

There are asset store extensions for doing recordings of course. But again no advice from me as I have no experience with them.

 

Thanks for your replies I will consider your hints.

If there is anybody out there that already tried to access the gamebar api through a native plugin it would be great to share some experience on that.