[shadefinale]

I'm fairly interested in the competitive smash bros scene - a common occurrence is that one might record a few hours worth of gameplay after an event and then be too lazy to split the recording into the individual matches, leaving a lot of recorded dead time where nothing is happening.

I learned how to use the gstreamer and opencv libraries to automate recording gameplay only when a game is in progress - it is still a WIP but the basic functionality works.

I'm looking into using a webcam + barcode labels or an NFC scanner to implement a solution to automate naming the players playing each match. If anyone has an idea on how to track something like that I'd be interested in hearing it.

[Sholmesy]

Awesome! Fellow smash player on HN!

GeekyGoonSquad started doing something similar when they were still around/streaming, and automated the uploading to youtube.

Re: automating the player names, on a non-stream set up, I think it will be difficult to get the names from players in a standardised way. My first thought was webcam + the players venue pass to get the competitors name, but even that is a little fiddly.

Best of luck!

[shadefinale]

I've just been fiddling around with things that can be attached to the end of the controller plugin such as rfid stickers, with a reader of some sort near the setup.