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Old December 14th 18, 02:29 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
JBI
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Default free screen capture software?

For Win 7 & 10, looking for free screen capture recorder to record
movies not just images. Thank you!
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Old December 14th 18, 03:02 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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"JBI" wrote

| For Win 7 & 10, looking for free screen capture recorder to record
| movies not just images. Thank you!

That was asked on 11/11. I'm not sure if anyone ever
came up with a really good answer. If you don't have
a newsreader that caches, you can see the thread
he

http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread.php?t=1106357

(Watch out for a similar thread on the freeware group.
That one is almost entirely composed of posts from
"Arlen Holder".


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Old December 14th 18, 03:23 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Spalls Hurgenson
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:29:24 -0500, JBI wrote:

For Win 7 & 10, looking for free screen capture recorder to record
movies not just images. Thank you!


While it's not explicitly designed for the task, VLC Media Player
(https://www.videolan.org/vlc/) has screen-capture functionality. It's
free and runs on pretty much all modern operating systems.

See https://pctonic.net/use-vlc-as-a-screen-recording-tool/ for
step-by-step instructions with pictures, but essentially it consists
of :

1) Clicking Media-Open Capture Device and changing the device to
"desktop"
2) Clicking "View-advanced controls so the record button shows up
3) clicking the record button

It's limited in capabilities - for instance, no sub-titles or ability
to record a voice-over - but a) everybody should have a copy of VLC
anyway, and b) since you have VLC anyway, you won't need yet another
piece of software installed on your system. ;-)

If you need something more sophisticated, well I am sure there are a
plethora of freeware packages but VLC has always worked well enough
for my needs. Give it a try; it may work for yours too.

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Old December 14th 18, 03:42 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default free screen capture software?

On 14/12/2018 13:29, JBI wrote:
For Win 7 & 10, looking for free screen capture recorder to record
movies not just images. Thank you!


Please try to learn how to use Google as most of your silly questions
have been answered adequately and you'll get all the answers
immediately. Don't waste people's time here.

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Old December 14th 18, 06:38 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
JBI
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Default free screen capture software?

On 12/14/18 9:02 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"JBI" wrote

| For Win 7 & 10, looking for free screen capture recorder to record
| movies not just images. Thank you!

That was asked on 11/11. I'm not sure if anyone ever
came up with a really good answer. If you don't have
a newsreader that caches, you can see the thread
he

http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread.php?t=1106357

(Watch out for a similar thread on the freeware group.
That one is almost entirely composed of posts from
"Arlen Holder".



Thanks for this, but you're right in that it looks like no definite
answer. Pretty surprising as I thought this would be a relatively
simple task and there'd be some freeware/ open source app ready for the
job.
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Old December 14th 18, 06:39 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
JBI
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Default free screen capture software?

On 12/14/18 9:23 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:29:24 -0500, JBI wrote:

For Win 7 & 10, looking for free screen capture recorder to record
movies not just images. Thank you!


While it's not explicitly designed for the task, VLC Media Player
(https://www.videolan.org/vlc/) has screen-capture functionality. It's
free and runs on pretty much all modern operating systems.

See https://pctonic.net/use-vlc-as-a-screen-recording-tool/ for
step-by-step instructions with pictures, but essentially it consists
of :

1) Clicking Media-Open Capture Device and changing the device to
"desktop"
2) Clicking "View-advanced controls so the record button shows up
3) clicking the record button

It's limited in capabilities - for instance, no sub-titles or ability
to record a voice-over - but a) everybody should have a copy of VLC
anyway, and b) since you have VLC anyway, you won't need yet another
piece of software installed on your system. ;-)

If you need something more sophisticated, well I am sure there are a
plethora of freeware packages but VLC has always worked well enough
for my needs. Give it a try; it may work for yours too.


Thanks, took a while to get this going, but the resulting files are huge
even for just one minute captures. I think I'll save as a last resort,
but good to know that I have the option if no other choice.
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Old December 14th 18, 06:40 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
JBI
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Default free screen capture software?

On 12/14/18 9:42 AM, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:
On 14/12/2018 13:29, JBI wrote:
For Win 7 & 10, looking for free screen capture recorder to record
movies not just images.Â* Thank you!


Please try to learn how to use Google as most of your silly questions
have been answered adequately and you'll get all the answers
immediately.Â* Don't waste people's time here.


You don't have to respond to or even look at my posts with a simple
filter. Why not use it and I'll be gone?
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Old December 14th 18, 07:52 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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Default free screen capture software?

"JBI" wrote

| On 12/14/18 9:42 AM, ?? Good Guy ?? wrote:
| On 14/12/2018 13:29, JBI wrote:

| You don't have to respond to or even look at my posts with a simple
| filter. Why not use it and I'll be gone?

Even better, block him. "Good Guy" is a mean-
spirited person who seems to want to be an amateur
Microsoft shill and rarely, if ever, says anything
useful. If you block his posts then the rest of us
won't have to see them.


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Old December 14th 18, 11:28 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default free screen capture software?

JBI wrote:
On 12/14/18 9:02 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"JBI" wrote

| For Win 7 & 10, looking for free screen capture recorder to record
| movies not just images. Thank you!

That was asked on 11/11. I'm not sure if anyone ever
came up with a really good answer. If you don't have
a newsreader that caches, you can see the thread
he

http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread.php?t=1106357

(Watch out for a similar thread on the freeware group.
That one is almost entirely composed of posts from
"Arlen Holder".



Thanks for this, but you're right in that it looks like no definite
answer. Pretty surprising as I thought this would be a relatively
simple task and there'd be some freeware/ open source app ready for the
job.


I was testing this yesterday.

ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 30 -i desktop -c:v h264_nvenc -qp 0 output.mkv

The capture would stop, every time a UAC prompt appeared
on the screen :-) What kooky fun!

What that does, is video capture via GDIgrab, but
runs it through the video card H264 encoder. It takes
3% video card, and zero CPU.

What would work better, might be VP8 or the like, as I think
the files can be smaller for non-video capture purposes. If
you needed to record rectangular text windows, I'd look
for a non-video-card-accelerated capture to VP8. Then the
file size could be smaller.

But if you're snaffling videos, then you'll need to do
a bit more testing, adjust the Q factor and so on.
Q is the quality.

If you're willing to spend money on this, FRAPs should be
able to capture just about any video source on Windows 7.
Win8 and Win10 are more protected, so FRAPs won't work. And
due to the method used, FRAPs will also cause your AV to
throw a hissy fit.

The NVidia video card comes with ShadowPlay, for recording
3D. It's possible MSI Afterburner has something, but when
I tested that, it didn't work for me (on NVidia card too).

Youtube videos are better handled by youtube-dl, which downloads
the video file directly using a parallel downloader of some
sort. It captures at faster than real time. A ten minute video
might be on your disk in 30 seconds to 1 minute. Youtube-dl
requires regular updates, as Youtube modifies the details
on their end. And the program works with many other sites,
and isn't really a pure Youtube solution at all. It works
with my local news station for example.

Worked example of youtube-dl, from a previous post.

http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi...nt-email.me%3E

Paul
 




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