Video Recorder item

[Sundance]

I could've sworn some other codebase managed to pull this off.

Maybe I'm just misremembering things

You might be thinking of improved cameras which I'm almost certain other servers have, in which it takes a picture of more than 1 damn little puny box that we currently have. I think it takes something like a 6x6 image and applies it to an object which when observed opens up the image on a separate window..?
God I wish the current camera had an option for that. You could switch modes, one for panoramic view like above, and the other for portrait which is the current code (which would still have its use for stuff like mugshots, whenever that gets implemented)

That's one way I could see an actual video working without being painfully hacky; in which you have to make your film, frame by frame per se. Essentially you could have a quickfire mode in which allows you to rapidly click to produce 40-50 frames, if you're clicking 1 frame per second then that's 40-50 seconds of footage. You can then compile it by adding the pictures to a reel.