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Author:  dckjns [ 12 Jan 2010, 21:02 ]
Post subject:  Record both desktop & fullscreen app/game

I'm looking for an app capable of recording both the desktop and in-game. Also it has to keep recording when tabbing up to fullscreen etc. Any recommendations?

Tried Fraps, Camtasia and that other popular one with "cam" in it.

Author:  sebas [ 12 Jan 2010, 21:22 ]
Post subject:  Re: Record both desktop & fullscreen app/game

http://www.virtualdub.org/

A bit heavy around the settings till you get used to it but otherwise it's awesome.

Author:  ProtectMyBalls [ 12 Jan 2010, 22:47 ]
Post subject:  Re: Record both desktop & fullscreen app/game

no point naming anymore, sebas has made a good recommendation and I recommend that you go for his recommendation. :D

virtual dub is the tits once you get inside it.

Author:  DrMcMoist [ 12 Jan 2010, 23:44 ]
Post subject:  Re: Record both desktop & fullscreen app/game

I use Fraps cause I'm downright lazy.

If you're downright lazy too, use Fraps.

Author:  ProtectMyBalls [ 13 Jan 2010, 00:31 ]
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Moist has a point too, i use fraps, cause i too am lazy, i use it at work, on the train, even on a boat and sometimes even when it rains.

no idea how i managed to transfer into the world of dr. seuss

Author:  [SpA]Minimoose! [ 13 Jan 2010, 09:17 ]
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But fraps is so lame :(

Author:  ProtectMyBalls [ 13 Jan 2010, 14:07 ]
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does the job, apart from a few things i wish i could do.

Author:  [SpA]JediLardMaster [ 13 Jan 2010, 14:18 ]
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Used FRAPS today for the first time - really easy to use. Only thing I didn't like was a 7 minute video came in at 450mb :shock: :shock: then had to re-encode it down to 12md for what I needed.

Author:  [SpA]YellowGoudvis [ 13 Jan 2010, 14:48 ]
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yeah that it with recorded stuff if you cap it on your pc t takes sound and vid apart frlom each other thats why you will always have a huge file

Author:  dckjns [ 13 Jan 2010, 15:52 ]
Post subject:  Re: Record both desktop & fullscreen app/game

Fraps doesn't record desktop. Well, sometimes it does, but only when something else bugs out.

I'll have a look at Virtual Dub

Author:  ProtectMyBalls [ 13 Jan 2010, 16:32 ]
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fraps also captures using a fraps uncompressed codec -which is also why you get such a big file (audio is uncompressed too) - im sure you can find some freeware to encode, i use tmpeg to encode, but you do have to pay.

Author:  [SpA]Minimoose! [ 13 Jan 2010, 16:44 ]
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virtual dub can encode

Get:

http://mirror01.x264.nl/x264/?dir=./revision1376

http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundl ... me-current I guess 3.98.2 (for adding compressed audio to h264)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/

Then just use virtualdub to encode to the h264 codec

Author:  DrMcMoist [ 13 Jan 2010, 17:09 ]
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[SpA]JediLardMaster wrote:
Used FRAPS today for the first time - really easy to use. Only thing I didn't like was a 7 minute video came in at 450mb :shock: :shock: then had to re-encode it down to 12md for what I needed.
Yeah, if I'm making video's that require me to take a lot of footage that gets edited later, I'm looking at some major hard drive space needed.

For example, I'm making a 4 minute video right now, and the combined footage I have taken so far comes to 59.4 GB.

I shit you not.

Author:  ProtectMyBalls [ 13 Jan 2010, 17:46 ]
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im capturing hours of video footage at work and have several big high capacity hdd's but even then, they do get stuffed pretty quickly.

Vdub is a great bit of software for encoding for pretty much anything unless its hardware specific (like for some sony games we need special software from them to encode for their consoles), but it's not as user friendly as some free encoding apps you may find. Thou there are plenty of tutorials and forums you can look at.

Author:  andrewtiger [ 18 Jan 2010, 03:35 ]
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Screen Recorder - Demo Creator.
More appropriate for making software tutorials, Website demos and instructional videos for Web sharing.

But it can't be used for recording games.

Author:  CherryRed [ 27 Jan 2010, 21:40 ]
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[SpA]DrMcMoist wrote:
I use Fraps cause I'm downright lazy.

If you're downright lazy too, use Fraps.
man after my own heart :mrgreen:

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