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What's a good free desktop screen recorder?
"Bill in Co" wrote
| There don't seem to be any listings or reviews of their programs that I've | found (but I only looked briefly), nor have I found out much of anything | about this "videotool.net" company, or even where it is based. If you want | to be suspicious of something, I think this is a case in point. | Yes. That's as I described in my own experience. But I tried it. I monitored for any suspicious activity. It's one of the few that never tried to call home at all. And it works. | just that you (generally) get what you pay for. ?? Was anyone talking about being willing to pay for this? The question was about "good free". I also don't think that's necessarily true when it comes to software. There are lots of factors. Many good products are free because there's just no market for selling them. Most of the software I use is free. And I also use it because it's usually the best I've found. I've paid for some that I think is worth it. But with most things there's no need to pay. At the other extreme are the corporate monopoly products -- MS Office and Photoshop. In that case you get less than you pay for, since equivalents can be had far cheaper. Then there are things that are not the best but are good enough. Example: PDF XChange Viewer free version can edit PDFs. It's not as capable as Acrobat, but it does what I need and Acrobat is ridiculously overpriced. There used to be a popular editor for VBScript that was $175, and that was maybe 15 years ago. Crazy expensive. It was popular because they marketed, seemed to have partnered with Microsoft, and got classes to require that students buy it. Clever marketing. But it wasn't much different from Notepad++. They just got the right people to keep repeating that it was the Cadillac of editors and all the sheep decided it must be worth $175. Because people rarely actually think for themselves. We could go on all day coming up with examples like that. Why do people pay $2 for a bottle of tap water that's not even as good as what comes from their sink and probably has nano-plastic contamination? In fact, it may very well be the same water as from their sink, if they're lucky. There's no regulation. Are they getting what they pay for? No. They're paying $2 and getting essentially nothing. They're getting what lots of other people told them is a good thing to buy. Then they throw away the bottle, creating unnecessary pollution while also requiring that they pay $2 again next time they want a drink of water. Selling water that nobody needs, and making an environmental mess doing it, is a multi-billion dollar industry. Yet the intelligentsia discuss whether Dasani or Poland Springs is better. Then they go to the gym to pay for the right to walk, dressing in $200 worth of official exercise clothing. Because you can't just wear any old thing if you want to do official walking. And they buy a power bar to improve their health, which is actually just sugar, maybe hydrogenated fats, stale oats, and whatever rancid vegetable oil fell off a truck this week. ("Safflower and/or coconut and/or palm kernel....") But they saw it on TV and the package says "Natural!... Power..." and something about Omega-3. So they buy it. Probably for 4 bucks. Did you ever see the video from Jimmy Kimmel of people outside a gym in LA being asked about gluten? Very funny and very telling... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdJFE1sp4Fw | Also, from the posting Arlen gave, you'll notice it's using an old mp4 | codec, and not the h.264 version. I don't see Arlen's posts and I don't really understand what that means. Smaller files? The Videotool people seem to have written their own stuff, but I don't know anything about video programming, so I can't assess it. What's superior about h.264 and what's the old version? | Maybe somebody can | investigate a few of their programs further. Like you, perhaps? If everyone tries some of them, we get a good sample. It looks to me like Videotools is a small, non-US shareware company. Probably non-English, as Paul noted. But that doesn't make them suspicious. The software works. I should note, though, that I'm not picky in this case. I haven't looked into options with any of this software in terms of resolution, FPS, etc. If I use it, it will only be to do something like send an instruction video to a friend trying to set up email. Compression is probably the most important factor to me. |
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