Desktop video capture utility

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Desktop video capture utility

Postby jasper-isis » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:42 am

I need a reliable desktop video capturing program. Sort of like Fraps, but for use anywhere in Windows as opposed to just in games. I know there are many out there. Has anybody had an experience with a good one?

Long story short, I cannot for the life of me find a working driver for my darned capture card ( it's supposed to use something called Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Encoder). But I managed to get a good-looking preview of my footage in AMCap. So I might as well use the VMR-9 renderer and capture the preview as it plays onscreen. By golly I'm gonna get this footage, whatever it takes. :|

So, any suggestions?
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Postby Purge » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:51 am

i've used this one a while ago - i dont think the quality is that great but it worked when i needed it too

http://www.zdsoft.com/screen-recorder/
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Postby Phantasmagoriat » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:58 am

I've used <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/">camstudio2.0</a> for capturing visualizations in winamp. You can save to whatever codec you have... so like, LAGS or whatever.

The only drawback i found was it didn't go smooth fullscreen; ~1/4 screen worked pretty good.
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Postby Minion » Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:05 am

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Postby Shazzy » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:35 pm

Buy a Mac. Then buy Snapz. :wink:
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Postby jasper-isis » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:45 pm

I tried the ZD Soft Screen Recorder, Camstudio, and Camtasia, encoding to Lagarith YUY2 (for some reason they don't tend to recognize huffyuv). ZD Soft Screen Recorder turned out to be the best in ease of use and framerate performance. It actually recorded my footage at a fluid 30fps when the others were getting 8-15fps at best (and that's with all the settings tweaked to best suit my system).

Anyway, got my footage captured. Thanks guys. :D
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