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Rick
September 5th 07, 06:16 PM
Looked in threads and did not see my issues adressed so I will ask a few
questions.

The first doesn't have to do with WMM but it related to it.

I use a screen cature program to record my poker session. Problem is that
when I record them it records the entire screen when I really want it to
record just the window the actually game is being played. Is the a screen
capture FREEWARE out there that will let you record a specific window kinda
like how things work when you want to do a screen print but only one window
so you use the ALT + PrintScreen combo?

Ok now on to me issue with WMM.

At the present time I am using WMM version 5.1 Build because I am still
using service pack 1 of Windows XP. Don't ask.

My finished product is of a much lower quality than the original WMM file.
When it is converted from a WMM format to a Video format things like Titles
and Pictures the Titles are being overlayed on lose some quality. There is
some fuzziness that is not in the original. Sadly it gets worse. The actually
video that I am joining to the Titles, Effects, etc. also loses quality.
Usually this is video I made from using a screen capture program. In this
case I use oRipa to do the screen capturing.\

Now yes when using opripa to capture there is a loss of quality which is not
what I would like to see. Perhaps someone knows of some better screen
capturing FREEWARE that works better. If so, please point me in the right
direction.

However, when I take the Screen Captured Video move it WMM and do a final
conversion to a video format useable by WMP the quality degrades even
farther.

Now I could deal with this end product if i was going to E-mail it to people.

The big problem comes when I then uploadtop YouTube. By that time the
quality of the screen capture has degraded so much that the actually names of
the people and the cards become hard to read.

Can anyone out there help me??????

PapaJohn
September 5th 07, 07:06 PM
The Microsoft Windows Media 9 Encoder package is a free download, and it's
screen capture can be of a specific window....

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/codecdownload.aspx

Screen captured videos are often much better in quality than movies.... they
use different codecs.... you'll need to do some pilot projects to get your
sweet spot in quality, balancing all of the factors.
--
website references are to www.papajohn.org

PapaJohn


"Rick" > wrote in message
...
> Looked in threads and did not see my issues adressed so I will ask a few
> questions.
>
> The first doesn't have to do with WMM but it related to it.
>
> I use a screen cature program to record my poker session. Problem is that
> when I record them it records the entire screen when I really want it to
> record just the window the actually game is being played. Is the a screen
> capture FREEWARE out there that will let you record a specific window
> kinda
> like how things work when you want to do a screen print but only one
> window
> so you use the ALT + PrintScreen combo?
>
> Ok now on to me issue with WMM.
>
> At the present time I am using WMM version 5.1 Build because I am still
> using service pack 1 of Windows XP. Don't ask.
>
> My finished product is of a much lower quality than the original WMM file.
> When it is converted from a WMM format to a Video format things like
> Titles
> and Pictures the Titles are being overlayed on lose some quality. There is
> some fuzziness that is not in the original. Sadly it gets worse. The
> actually
> video that I am joining to the Titles, Effects, etc. also loses quality.
> Usually this is video I made from using a screen capture program. In this
> case I use oRipa to do the screen capturing.\
>
> Now yes when using opripa to capture there is a loss of quality which is
> not
> what I would like to see. Perhaps someone knows of some better screen
> capturing FREEWARE that works better. If so, please point me in the right
> direction.
>
> However, when I take the Screen Captured Video move it WMM and do a final
> conversion to a video format useable by WMP the quality degrades even
> farther.
>
> Now I could deal with this end product if i was going to E-mail it to
> people.
>
> The big problem comes when I then uploadtop YouTube. By that time the
> quality of the screen capture has degraded so much that the actually names
> of
> the people and the cards become hard to read.
>
> Can anyone out there help me??????

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