HLTV WEB ADMIN
The web admin is required to start and stop your HLTV demo recorder. With these being free we have restricted them to pure demo recorders, no player slots are available and the HLTV servers are all passworded. In their current state they cannot be configured in any way, shape or form. This does make things a little awkward and these restrictions can be removed by purchasing your HLTV server. They do however provide a simple and effective method of recording HLTV demos of your matches.

STARTING HLTV
Starting the HLTV will automatically spawn the HLTV and join your own clan port. A demo will automatically start recording. Demos span over map changes so you do not need to stop and start the HLTV between halves or otherwise when the map changes. A seperate demo is recorded for each period between map changes.

STOPPING HLTV
With this limited access to your HLTV server you cannot control the file names or start and stop the demos in the normal ways. Stopping your HLTV will kill the server immediately. Be careful when doing this as demos will not be closed properly and unlikely to playback. IMPORTANT: To close the demo correctly simply change the map on your server eg. rcon changelevel de_dust2. This will cause HLTV to automatically close the demo properly and start a new one on the next map. We recommend waiting for 30 seconds after the map change before stopping the HLTV via the web admin. Once this is done you can stop the HLTV using the web admin knowing only the currently recording demo will be closed improperly. It will no doubt happen that people stop the HLTV without changing the map, this WILL damage the demo and make it unplayable using the standard "playdemo demoname.dem" system. However a patched version of the "viewdemo demoname.dem" system is available which can in 90% of situations play back these damaged demos. This patch is available Click Here. We also recommend SKPlayer (formerly GeekPlay) for playing back demos. This integrates a lot of tools for fixing demos and stripping teamsays etc. Pop over to www.schroet.com/skplayer/ and grab it!

DOWNLOADING HLTV DEMOS
On stopping your HLTV all demos recorded in that session are zipped into a single file. This file is deleted and reused each time a session is closed so either download it before starting another HLTV session or rename the zip file via ftp. Failure to do this will result in those demos zip file to be overwritten when the next session is closed. Ftp access details are identical to your clan ports except the user name. The user names for your HLTV are 10 above your clan port. eg. If your clan port user name login is p27015 your HLTV user name login is p27025. Once you have logged in you will see the latest zipped hltv_demos.zip and any other zips you have renamed.

OUR SERVER IS PASSWORDED, HOW WILL THE HLTV BE ABLE TO CONNECT ?
Once you login via ftp you will also see a file called password.txt - this is a plain text file which contains the player password for your clan port. If you change the player password on your clanport simple change the password in the password.txt file.

FULL HLTV SERVERS
Fully configurable HLTV servers are available on request. The only change functionality wise compared to the free version above is full access to your hltv.cfg file instead of just the password.txt. With access to the hltv.cfg you can fully configure HLTV however you please and control is using rcon yourselves.

Prices will obviously reflect options purchased but will primarily be related to spectator slots requested. A demo recorder only option will also be available which will be a cost effective way of removing the control restrictions imposed by the free version. Prices will be posted on the order page within a day or two.