Saturday, February 5, 2011

What's a good program to record video or screencast being played on screen?

What's a good program to record videos or screencasts being played on screen?

  • I've had success with Camtasia / CamStudio. Check out http://showmedo.com for tutorials. It's a little recursive though - it would be better to capture it from source.

    From harriyott
  • Lot more info in a previous question

    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16763/tips-on-recording-a-webcast

    From Gulzar
  • If you're using Vista the latest version of Fraps might also do what you need. I haven't tried it for that, though, just games

    : It seems the WoW community uses that extensively ;)
    Craig Tyler : Fraps only records DirectX or OpenGL renderings such as games. Probably not best suited for general screencast recording.
    From Chuck
  • On Windows, you have CamTasia (commercial), CamStudio (GPL), FRAPS (commercial with free trial).

    FRAPS will definitely do your job, it was designed to capture videos of 3D games. CamTasia might, it has a low-level custom codec (TechSmith Capture Codec). CamStudio probably won't, at least not smoothly. CamStudio has issues on Vista, I don't know about FRAPS, CamTasia is fine on Vista.

    On the Mac try ScreenFlow, their example video makes it clear it can capture live video streams.

    On Linux you'll be in a bit of trouble. If you recompile ffmpeg you might get it recording video. I think recordmydesktop won't do the job.

  • DemoCreator could be an good option. It is easy to use, and there are powerful editing features with it.

    http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html

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