Best Screen Recorder?

[reven]

was just wondering if anyone has used a screen recorder before (app to record your screen and save it as a video file).

i found camstudio, but on a 1920x1080 display i only get about 10fps, which doesnt look all that good. was hoping for something more around the 25fps mark.

anyone have any suggestions?

[herbs]

maybe these might help

[mian]

maybe these might help

From that list, only Jing appears to do video, and only in flash.

@OP, I'm afraid all I've used is camstudio and fraps--and fraps only works for apps/games that have a full screen mode (as far as I can tell), it won't capture windowed or desktop activity.

I know there is at least one commercial app designed specifically for video capture, but I can't recall it's name.

[mvallevand]

On the PCH forum today I found that vlc lets you do this. Here's a link to the vlc syntax

http://www.nerdlogger.com/2008/01/stream...op-as.html

With this I could view my desktop on the PCH and I tested and I could also save the stream using wget. You can probably even save directly to a file. I was surprised being able to capture PVRX2 playing SD analog and stream it with not too much stutter, so the capture to file could be pretty good.

Heres a 23MB sample download http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ANRYZDVM with some video playing or to see what 1680x1050 looks like on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VB9N1pHUnk (res to low)

Martin

[mian]

On the PCH forum today I found that vlc lets you do this. Here's a link to the vlc syntax

http://www.nerdlogger.com/2008/01/stream...op-as.html

...You can probably even save directly to a file.

Video-Recording-With-VLC

Googling your suggestion, I found those instructions (scroll inside the scribd area). Haven't tried it, but it looks promising. And surprising too. Thanks mvall

[reven]

yeah thanks mvallevand, vlc looks like it will do what i need.

[wtg]

If vlc doesn't work for you, you might try Wink. It's a great free utility that I've used a number of times for how-to videos. Lots of output options too.

[reven]

alas, i just tried vlc and the quality isnt very good, the frame rate is far too slow. im trying to record a demo of the "videos" plugin im writing in action and post it on youtube (so want to show off the animations etc, which happen with a second)

[reven]

ok i found one that works really well, but not free, camtasia

[mvallevand]

You could also look at fraps . I have used the free version in the past and if you can live with a watermark and a 30 second demo it might do what you want.

Martin