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What's a good free desktop screen recorder?
On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:22:19 GMT, mick wrote:
Have you tried Handbrake for conversion? https://handbrake.fr/ I don't recommend handbrake, although I used it and loved it for years, especially since Super went to the dark side. I currently recommend ShotCut, although it's completely different than Handbrake. HandBrake is a cross platform converter. ShotCut is mostly for video editing, so it's a complex GUI (like Pinnacle Studio is); but ShotCut converts just about any audio format you can give it. Both are great though - but I put my vote on ShotCut having used both. ================================================== ========================== o *ShotCut* freeware pretty much handles everything fantastically https://www.shotcutapp.com/download/ o *Handbrake* freeware is cross platform compatible https://handbrake.fr/ o *Super* freeware used to be the best (but get the older versions!) http://www.videohelp.com/tools/SUPER/old-versions (no longer there) o Others are *VirtualDub, AviDemux, AviSynth, oxelon, totallyfreeconverter*, etc. https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdub/files/virtualdub-win/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/avidemux/files/latest/download https://sourceforge.net/projects/avisynth2/files/latest/download http://www.oxelon.com/media_converter.html https://sourceforge.net/projects/oxelonmediaconv/files/oxelonmediaconv/oxelonplugins/oxelonplugins.exe/download http://www.sabsoft.com/TotallyFreeConverter.htm ================================================== ========================== |
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 04:38:41 -0500, Paul wrote:
CamStudio is a dumpster fire. Hi Paul, I am trying to keep up on which work and which sucks of the ones I originally listed (where nothing new has come up since). Where would you put camstudio on this list of freeware, best to worst for the purpose of freeware to video capture sound/screen on Windows? o camstudio o vlc o apowerrec o debut o dvdvideosoft o ezvid o flashback o goplay o obs o gamedvr o sharex o smartpixel o tinytake o icecream o screenomatic |
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 01:19:36 -0000 (UTC), Arlen_Holder wrote:
I am trying to keep up on which work and which sucks of the ones I originally listed (where nothing new has come up since). Hi Paul, This is the latest list after reading all the posts on this thread. Do you concur with the rough order below? (It's preliminary.) Screen recorders o camstudio o vlc o ezvid (mayayana tested) o apowerrec o debut video capture o dvdvideosoft o goplay o obs studio o gamedvr o xsplit broadcaster o iSpring free cam (wmv only) o sharex (needs addon) o smartpixel (watermark) o tinytake (5 min) o icecream (watermark, 5min, only webm) o flashback express (mayayana tested, spyware) o screencastomatic (mayayana tested, 15-min, watermark, stay away from it) o gilisoft free screen recorder (mayayana tested, trialware, watermark) Downloader: o youtube-dl Converters: o ShotCut o Handbrake o Super (use the older version) |
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Arlen_Holder wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 01:19:36 -0000 (UTC), Arlen_Holder wrote: I am trying to keep up on which work and which sucks of the ones I originally listed (where nothing new has come up since). Hi Paul, This is the latest list after reading all the posts on this thread. Do you concur with the rough order below? (It's preliminary.) Screen recorders o camstudio o vlc o ezvid (mayayana tested) o apowerrec o debut video capture o dvdvideosoft o goplay o obs studio o gamedvr o xsplit broadcaster o iSpring free cam (wmv only) o sharex (needs addon) o smartpixel (watermark) o tinytake (5 min) o icecream (watermark, 5min, only webm) o flashback express (mayayana tested, spyware) o screencastomatic (mayayana tested, 15-min, watermark, stay away from it) o gilisoft free screen recorder (mayayana tested, trialware, watermark) Downloader: o youtube-dl Converters: o ShotCut o Handbrake o Super (use the older version) CamStudio had the ability to draw a rectangle around the capture region. At the time, other applications weren't as easy to use. CamStudio used AVI for the output container. And as far as I know, doesn't have AVI2 OpenDML output capability, which limits non-corrupted output to 4GB. Even when two Google Summer Of Code people were available to work on CamStudio, they didn't fix the AVI part. I could have fixed that in five minutes, by gluing FFMPEG to the butt end :-/ The SOC people were supposed to have added multi-monitor support (think how quickly that would deplete your 4GB max file size). I think the "CamStudio CODEC" may have disappeared. They had their own CODEC at one time, and it may have been added to some other programs so you could actually use the output. The program would pretend to copy at 200FPS, when the engine was actually capturing at 7FPS and repeating each frame close to 30 times. But the rest of the feature set, is bonkers. If you wrote a program in 1980, slid it into a box, closed the lid, then opened it in 2018, what do you think the program would look like ? Like it was from 1980 or something. The controls make no sense. The CODEC choices offered are... prehistoric. Imagine using Cinepak when grabbing 1920x1080 screen ? Think how slow that's going to be. (Some Cinepak render runs operate at sub-1FPS rates. Such a choice cannot end well. Cinepak was wonderful back when it was used for 160x120 videos. Cinepak is not based on frequency domain analysis of the picture.) In my opinion, when there are many many competitors, and a lot of them are re-using an existing engine, we should use "Chrome" analysis. On browsers, anything based on Chromium gets the "Hey, it's Chrome" description. We're less likely to test such things, because a typical developer doesn't really change much. It doesn't matter if the developer dolled it up a bit (put his name on it), it's still Chrome. That might reduce the playing field to the level that you could spot innovation. Back in the day, there were people bootstrapping off the AMCAP code (to do webcam capture). There were people bootstrapping off the Microsoft RAMDisk demo code (which set back the development of good RAMDisks by about 15 years - tremendous damage...). When code gets reused, the results aren't always exemplary. Lazy guys like me paste an extra three lines of code into it, put our name on it, and suddenly you have another item on your list to test. As for the IceCream, I seem to have lost my copy :-) I can't be sure what the download filename was. I tried looking for IceCream but didn't find it. It was a pretty large download for such a "simple" operation. Look at the size of AMCAP for inspiration. IceCream bolted together a whole pile of Open Source stuff. Paul |
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Mayayana wrote:
"Charlie+" wrote Try BB Flashback Express - free version for personal use, register to get key. C+ I just tried it. Mixed results. First, it's too big. A 21 MB installer. 109 MB installed (!) Then it worked but couldn't save to mp4 without getting QuickTime. (I'm definitely not installing Apple software. They're among the worst for spyware, while Timmy Cook squeals that he's the only moral, privacy-respecting CEO in tech. Spyware is bad enough. Baldfaced lying about it is worse.) So I resaved the proprietary file format as AVI. That played OK, but it put a sizable black rectangle in the middle of the screen saying it was an evaluation. Though I was able to minimize the black box the next time I recorded. After recording I had to open the player to re-open the proprietary file and resave as AVI. (Later to use Avidemux, I suppose, if I wanted an mp4. So two complex operations just to get a compact file format.) Spyware functionality called 3 different IPs: Recorder: 130.159.196.117 University of Strathclyde, UK LogSysServer.exe: 104.27.150.13 CloudFlare Player: 176.34.137.58 Cloudfront on Amazon web services, Ireland This one tried to send every few seconds while playing back. The destination is an Amazon storage service, especially for caching videos. It appears the program was trying to upload the video. So.... It works. But it takes up a very bloated 109 MB and that's without even being able to save to mp4. And it's rather extreme spyware. This kind of software is handy to have for giving help to others, but it seems like it should be so hard to find a simple, non-spyware, compact program that just stitches together screenshots and makes an mp4. I suspect many of us have Quicktime installed so that the mp4 option would be readily available. It would be interesting to know if anyone else has come across these issues, as it seemed it had some pretty good reviews. Another relatively basic one that got good marks for simplicity was ispring_free_cam, as already noted, but it only saves in WMV format. Other than that it looks pretty good for an easy to use recorder, and even has a built in video editor. |
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Bill in Co wrote:
Mayayana wrote: "Charlie+" wrote Try BB Flashback Express - free version for personal use, register to get key. C+ I just tried it. Mixed results. First, it's too big. A 21 MB installer. 109 MB installed (!) Then it worked but couldn't save to mp4 without getting QuickTime. (I'm definitely not installing Apple software. They're among the worst for spyware, while Timmy Cook squeals that he's the only moral, privacy-respecting CEO in tech. Spyware is bad enough. Baldfaced lying about it is worse.) So I resaved the proprietary file format as AVI. That played OK, but it put a sizable black rectangle in the middle of the screen saying it was an evaluation. Though I was able to minimize the black box the next time I recorded. After recording I had to open the player to re-open the proprietary file and resave as AVI. (Later to use Avidemux, I suppose, if I wanted an mp4. So two complex operations just to get a compact file format.) Spyware functionality called 3 different IPs: Recorder: 130.159.196.117 University of Strathclyde, UK LogSysServer.exe: 104.27.150.13 CloudFlare Player: 176.34.137.58 Cloudfront on Amazon web services, Ireland This one tried to send every few seconds while playing back. The destination is an Amazon storage service, especially for caching videos. It appears the program was trying to upload the video. So.... It works. But it takes up a very bloated 109 MB and that's without even being able to save to mp4. And it's rather extreme spyware. This kind of software is handy to have for giving help to others, but it seems like it should be so hard to find a simple, non-spyware, compact program that just stitches together screenshots and makes an mp4. I suspect many of us have Quicktime installed so that the mp4 option would be readily available. It would be interesting to know if anyone else has come across these issues, as it seemed it had some pretty good reviews. Another relatively basic one that got good marks for simplicity was ispring_free_cam, as already noted, but it only saves in WMV format. Other than that it looks pretty good for an easy to use recorder, and even has a built in video editor. One thing you want during capture, is a compressor that's easy on the processor, and doesn't drop frames. And judging by the rather random selection of options that these programs offer, I don't see a consensus developing about what to use. You might be able to use a "more expensive" CODEC for compression, if you had Intel QuickSync. I doubt the various hardware options are uniform enough to make writing programs to use it, all that easy (DXVA library?). You can create your desired output format later, in post-production. When I need something, I use MJPEG, because it scales with the number of CPU cores I've got. It's not the best choice, because of numeric ringing on sharp edges in the images. Each core can work on one frame. By specifying the max_threads in the tool you use, you can set the percent_CPU that gets used (in the more demanding situations). I tried to do more "raw" captures, so no compression was used, but the standards for that aren't all that good. That was a flop in a test. I couldn't post-process to another format. With modern hardware, like say a 2TB SSD as a target, you can capture quite a large screen in raw format... at 500MB/sec. If you push the I/O rate high enough, there's a tendency for "the computer to lose its mind". The balancing of OS tasks isn't all that good, if you push too hard (doing high I/O and filling the system write buffer, may be detrimental to lipsync). And there's no need to do that to capture a Youtube video anyway. Maybe if I had more expensive hardware, it would be different (4K screen, newer video card). ******* If you had an older version of QuickTime, maybe you can divorce the installer from its "Updater" module. Using 7ZIP, have a look inside, and there should be separate MSI files or the like. Later Apple packages, they like to inter-twine the software in such a way, that stuff breaks if a module is missing. But you can experiment with just installing "the bit worth having". QuickTime is no longer supported on Windows. It was removed from iTunes in fact. Apple didn't want to continue doing security patches on it, so it was ****-canned. That wouldn't stop me from using it, if there was sufficient incentive. When you use it, just remember to disable all the file associations it wants to inject. Don't be in a rush installing it. The last thing you want is for their Player to start popping up. But having the library present should be OK. If you can't push any malformed input into it by accident, that might make it slightly safer. I've not heard of anyone being tipped over by a QuickTime exploit, but then, not everyone would have a copy. Paul |
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"Bill in Co" wrote
| I suspect many of us have Quicktime installed so that the mp4 option would | be readily available. It would be interesting to know if anyone else has | come across these issues, as it seemed it had some pretty good reviews. | You mean bloat and spyware? It's obviously the same program, whoever installs it, so it's not a matter of whether people might "run across those issues". You can check for yourself. Install it with a firewall that blocks outgoing. As for the bloat, we're talking about a program that takes screenshots. 109 MB and it can't save as mp4? I'd call that extreme. It should be able to also do my taxes and vacuum the living room at that size. ByteScout Screen Capture is 1.5 MB. My dislike of bloat is partly just the bloat itself: I don't want programs taking up a lot of space unnecessarily. But it's also a quality issue. Bloat usually implies two things: 1) Sloppiness and carelessness. The programmer is not articulate about details. 2) Lack of expertise. A programmer who actually writes the code to make the program work will usually turn out a small program. Big, bloated programs are usually "wrappers" made by people who don't know what they're doing. In other words, the programmer who produced it doesn't actually know how to do the job. They've just pulled together outside DLLs and such to do it for them. In many cases those outside sources will, themselves, be wrappers. It's the difference between a restaurant that cooks a spaghetti dinner from scratch and one that heats a frozen dinner and puts it on a warm plate with a sprig of parsley. But many people won't care or notice bloat or spyware. If you don't care, and you don't care that Quicktime is also spyware that runs no less than 3 programs at startup, then Flashback may be fine. I wasn't assessing the basic functionality of it. I happen to be an oddball who doesn't accept spyware. So when a program tries to call home to "everyone and his brother", or requires me to install bloated spyware crap from Apple, then I get rid of it. | Another relatively basic one that got good marks for simplicity was | ispring_free_cam, as already noted, but it only saves in WMV format. Other | than that it looks pretty good for an easy to use recorder, and even has a | built in video editor. | That one, also, seems to depend on how you feel about spyware. You need to enter an email address just to maybe get the program. The privacy policy is a long, tedious read about how they're a "data controller", whatever that is, and collect all sorts of info. I can't tell from the webpage, but the way they word things makes it sound like it's actually a "web service", AKA spyware that runs on your machine but pretends to run from a website. This blurring of your computer and theirs, as more software uses a spyware/datamining business model, seems to be getting very common. I had never seen it before this discussion of screenshot software. Of course I know that most phone software is like that, but I'd never seen this blatantly dishonest approach of pretending to offer downloadable/installable software when the product is actually adware/spyware that may not work at all without being connected remotely. iSpring adverises itself as "100% free!". |
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Paul wrote:
Bill in Co wrote: [...] Another relatively basic one that got good marks for simplicity was ispring_free_cam, as already noted, but it only saves in WMV format. Other than that it looks pretty good for an easy to use recorder, and even has a built in video editor. One thing you want during capture, is a compressor that's easy on the processor, and doesn't drop frames. And judging by the rather random selection of options that these programs offer, I don't see a consensus developing about what to use. I don't know if this is relevant (my knowledge/experience in this subject matter is quite limited), but iSpring Free Cam *records* in WAV (.wav) plus AVI (.avi) format and only when you do a 'Save as Video', the recorded .wav/.avi is *converted* to WMV (.wmv) format. In my short and simple test, the size of the .wmv file was about a third of the size of the .wav/.avi files. [...] |
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Bill in Co wrote:
[...] Another relatively basic one that got good marks for simplicity was ispring_free_cam, as already noted, but it only saves in WMV format. Other than that it looks pretty good for an easy to use recorder, and even has a built in video editor. I used iSpring Free Cam as well (for only a short time) and it was the best of the few I looked at / tried. However in my notes it says that the video it made was only 15 frames per second, which - dependent on usage - may or may not be a problem. |
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"Ant" wrote
| With no limitations and can handle live videos on screens to record in | web browsers. Also, it has to work well on a decade old updated 64-bit | W7 HPE SP1 PC with 6 GB of RAM and ATI Radeon 4870 video card (512 MB of | RAM). Here's another one: http://www.videotool.net/screen-reco...ee-version.htm Cute Screen Recorder. Saves to mp4. Simple. No nonsense. No calling home. 7 MB download. 20 MB installed. Works on XP I don't know whether this is the same "Cute" company that used to make a lot of other products. I used to use CuteFTP, I think. And I now have CutePDF Writer. It doesn't seem to be the same people. I can't find out much about them. It doesn't seem to be an American operation. It's interesting how hard it is to find these things online. I once spent an entire afternoon finding Avidemux for video. It wasn't coming up in searches. And Cute wasn't coming up in any Best Of list. I just happened to come across it through a Softpedia link. |
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Mayayana wrote:
"Ant" wrote | With no limitations and can handle live videos on screens to record in | web browsers. Also, it has to work well on a decade old updated 64-bit | W7 HPE SP1 PC with 6 GB of RAM and ATI Radeon 4870 video card (512 MB of | RAM). Here's another one: http://www.videotool.net/screen-reco...ee-version.htm Cute Screen Recorder. Saves to mp4. Simple. No nonsense. No calling home. 7 MB download. 20 MB installed. Works on XP I don't know whether this is the same "Cute" company that used to make a lot of other products. I used to use CuteFTP, I think. And I now have CutePDF Writer. It doesn't seem to be the same people. I can't find out much about them. It doesn't seem to be an American operation. It's interesting how hard it is to find these things online. I once spent an entire afternoon finding Avidemux for video. It wasn't coming up in searches. And Cute wasn't coming up in any Best Of list. I just happened to come across it through a Softpedia link. It's not in the list here either. https://www.videohelp.com/software/s...screen-capture It's also weird that I'm getting so many foreign language hits for it, and then nothing much in English. Maybe I'll have to wait later in the day for Google search to "fully wake up". Paul |
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"Paul" wrote
| It's not in the list here either. | | https://www.videohelp.com/software/s...screen-capture | Wow. That's quite a listing site. It doesn't surprise me that things are missing. There's an odd herd mentality about these things. As I mentioned, it took me a long time to find Avidemux. Why? Nothing else free comes close to it. But it just wasn't mainstream. Similarly, HxD hex editor, IcoFX icon editor, Audacity for audio, PeaZip for ZIP. PeaZip is one of the few good, free programs that fully handles compressed files. Yet it's not well known. Similarly, Power Archiver was never well known despite being a free clone of WinZip. WinZip was corporate and the developers were sharp about getting it into the media. I got in an argument about this once with a writer at PC World. He had written a feature piece on browsers. IE and Netscape, at the time. I pointed out that Firefox was up and coming but he never even mentioned it. Nor Opera. Firefox was invisible until they started buying fullpage ads in the NYT. Why didn't the PC World author mention FF? Because PC World is mainstream media. The job of mainstream media is not to inform or print news but to maintain consensus reality. If the PC World writer had really thought for himself and reported the facts it would have threatened PC world's status as mainstream. And it might have annoyed Microsoft enough to risk ad dollars. I find it fascinating how powerful the influence of groupthink is. Reality becomes tightly circumscribed because people don't dare trust their own judgement or risk criticism. Things can only be thought when they're disseminated to the crowd. MeToo is a current example. People don't dare watch a Kevin Spacey movie question any claim of abuse by any woman. In ten years it will seem like an extreme mental derangement, but right now it's pure truth that can't be questioned in the mainstream. Another good example is the people who are hired to be trendsetters. People who exude fashionable confidence and often end up creating trends. If 4 pop music stars take up yoyos or chess then yoyos or chess will become the topic on everyone's lips. |
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 23:01:26 -0500, Paul wrote:
As for the IceCream, I seem to have lost my copy :-) I can't be sure what the download filename was. I tried looking for IceCream but didn't find it. Hi Paul, As you know, the huge expense of freeware is finding the best ones. For that, we rely on others we trust, and our own test instincts. To that end, both you and Mayayana (both of whom we trust) have reported on most of the following screen recording free software (e.g., I will demote camstudio based on your response above). And yet... Both you and Mayayana can't find downloads that I'm sure I listed the URLs for (multiple times) in this thread (almost all of which, if not all of which, I recently tested before posting them);so, as to help everyone at the same time I help you, I created this list just now that contains _all_ the suggested programs (with a short description of test results), and where I ordered the programs as best I could based on the reviewer's tone in this thread. As always, this is for everyone to benefit so please improve as needed! Freeware Screenrecorders (best to worst): See also: https://www.videohelp.com/software/sections/desktop-screen-capture o cutescreenrecorder (mayayana tested, mp4, worked best so far) http://www.videotool.net/screen-recorder-free-version.htm http://www.videotool.net/download/screenrecorderfree.exe o vlc https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.php o iSpring free cam (records in wav/avi & saves as wmv only, 15fps) https://www.ispringsolutions.com/ispring-free-cam o ezvid (mayayana tested) https://www.ezvid.com o camstudio https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/camstudio.html (full installer) https://camstudio.org/ (web stub) o apowerrec https://www.apowersoft.com/record-all-screen o debut video capture https://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html o dvdvideosoft https://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Screen-Video-Recorder.htm o goplay o obs studio https://obsproject.com/download o gamedvr https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/GameDVR_Config o xsplit broadcaster https://www.xsplit.com/broadcaster o sharex (needs addon) https://getsharex.com/ o smartpixel (watermark) http://www.smartpixel.com/ o tinytake (5 min) https://tinytake.com/tinytake-download o icecream (watermark, 5min, only webm) https://icecreamapps.com/Screen-Recorder/ o flashback express (mayayana tested, spyware) https://www.flashbackrecorder.com/express/ o screencastomatic (mayayana tested, 15-min, watermark, stay away from it) https://screencast-o-matic.com/ o gilisoft free screen recorder (mayayana tested, trialware, watermark) http://www.gilisoft.com/free-screen-recorder.htm Freeware Downloaders (best to worst): o youtube-dl https://youtube-dl.org/ o ? Freeware Converters (best to worst): o *ShotCut* freeware pretty much handles everything fantastically https://www.shotcutapp.com/download/ o *Handbrake* freeware is cross platform compatible https://handbrake.fr/ o *Super* freeware used to be the best (but get the older versions!) http://www.videohelp.com/tools/SUPER/old-versions (no longer there) o Others *VirtualDub, AviDemux, AviSynth, oxelon, totallyfreeconverter*, etc. https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdub/files/virtualdub-win/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/avidemux/files/latest/download https://sourceforge.net/projects/avisynth2/files/latest/download http://www.oxelon.com/media_converter.html https://sourceforge.net/projects/oxelonmediaconv/files/oxelonmediaconv/oxelonplugins/oxelonplugins.exe/download http://www.sabsoft.com/TotallyFreeConverter.htm o ? As always, this is a work in progress compiled and posted for the benefit of all - hence - please improve where you see improvement needs. |
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On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:39:53 -0500, Paul wrote:
It's not in the list here either. https://www.videohelp.com/software/s...screen-capture It's also weird that I'm getting so many foreign language hits for it, and then nothing much in English. Maybe I'll have to wait later in the day for Google search to "fully wake up". Hi Paul, So that others benefit, here's my install log for the program Mayayana suggested, which includes information about codec analysis at the bottom where I think others may benefit from both the codecs and the analysis tools, so I post the ad-hoc log below with those additions at the end. ================================================== ========================== "Cute Screen Recorder free version 3.903" log ================================================== ========================== Download from http://www.videotool.net/screen-recorder-free-version.htm Actual file http://www.videotool.net/download/screenrecorderfree.exe Help at: http://www.videotool.net/screen-recorder-free-version-help.htm?sr Related products: http://www.videotool.net/download.htm?sr Download to c:\software\editor\screenrec\cutescreenrec\ ================================================== ========================== --------------------------- Checksum information --------------------------- Name: screenrecorderfree.exe Size: 6871846 bytes (6 MB) SHA256: DC77C068A4ED42BC3A1D80CBEA1AD67DCD254DAD68EA72B62F 8D0480BD074F36 --------------------------- OK --------------------------- ================================================== ========================== It wants to install into C:\Program Files (x86)\Cute Screen Recorder I put it in C:\app\editor\screenrec\cutescreenrec It created a desktop icon named Cute Screen Recorder Free Version Target of C:\app\editor\screenrec\cutescreenrec\cutescreenre corder.exe Start in of C:\app\editor\screenrec\cutescreenrec ================================================== ========================== It brings up a GUI saying "Cute Screen Recorder free version 3.903" The default settings seem erasable except for the "Output Directory" Change from Output Directory = C:\ProgramData\screenrecorder Change to Output Directory = C:\tmp\screenrec\ ================================================== ========================== For my first test... o I hit the "full screen" button (as the manual GUI was a bit clumsy) o I set it to mp4, 20 frames per second, sound, mouse, 10 seconds o When the time was up, it popped open the save directory (which is nice) CuteScreenRecorder-1920-1080_(new).mp4 o The file played fine in Media Player Classic (which is my default player) ================================================== ========================== To determine what codecs were used... I slid the file onto GSpot but it said "Codec Status Undetermined". Admittedly GSpot is old so I searched for newer codec analysis tools. ================================================== ========================== Codec Installer reported it was MPEG-4 (Video) mp4: Of possible formats: .3G2 84.3% .MOV 8.6% .MP4 5.2% .ABR 1.7% ================================================== ========================== MediaInfo reported: General Complete name : C:\tmp\screenrec\CuteScreenRecorder-1920-1080_(new).mp4 Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media Codec ID : isom (isom/iso2/mp41) File size : 1.51 MiB Duration : 10 s 150 ms Overall bit rate mode : Constant Overall bit rate : 999 kb/s Writing application : Lavf54.63.104 Video ID : 1 Format : MPEG-4 Visual Format profile : Simple@L1 Format settings, BVOP : No Format settings, QPel : No Format settings, GMC : No warppoints Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263) Codec ID : mp4v-20 Duration : 10 s 150 ms Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 998 kb/s Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels Display aspect ratio : 5:4 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 20.000 FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Compression mode : Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.038 Stream size : 1.51 MiB (100%) Writing library : Lavc54.92.100 ================================================== ========================== So that others can reproduce what I did above, as always, here are sufficient details to download the codecs and the codec analysis tools. ================================================== ========================== Free Codec Detectors o avicodec http://avicodec.free.fr/ o codecinstaller http://www.jockersoft.com/downloads/CodecInstaller/setup_CodecInstaller_full.exe o gspot http://gspot.headbands.com/ o mediainfo https://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo/files/latest/download https://ayera.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mediainfo/binary/mediainfo-gui/18.08.1/MediaInfo_GUI_18.08.1_Windows.exe o videoinspector http://www.kcsoftwares.com/?vtb https://kcsoftwares.com/files/videoinspector_lite.exe o ? others ? ================================================== ========================== Free codec packs http://www.codecguide.com/ o Klite http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm http://www.codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_full.htm http://files2.codecguide.com/K-Lite_Codec_Pack_1455_Basic.exe http://files2.codecguide.com/K-Lite_Codec_Pack_1455_Standard.exe http://files2.codecguide.com/K-Lite_Codec_Pack_1455_Mega.exe http://files2.codecguide.com/klcp_update_1455_20181106.exe o Cole2K http://www.cole2k.net/ http://node-20bde4a35e5c.cole2k.net/files/no-tb/cole2k.media.-.codec.pack.v8.0.6.-advanced-.setup.exe o ? others ? ================================================== ========================== |
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What's a good free desktop screen recorder?
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"Ant" wrote With no limitations and can handle live videos on screens to record in web browsers. Also, it has to work well on a decade old updated 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 PC with 6 GB of RAM and ATI Radeon 4870 video card (512 MB of RAM). Here's another one: http://www.videotool.net/screen-reco...ee-version.htm Cute Screen Recorder. Saves to mp4. Simple. No nonsense. No calling home. 7 MB download. 20 MB installed. Works on XP I don't know whether this is the same "Cute" company that used to make a lot of other products. I used to use CuteFTP, I think. And I now have CutePDF Writer. It doesn't seem to be the same people. I can't find out much about them. It doesn't seem to be an American operation. It's interesting how hard it is to find these things online. I once spent an entire afternoon finding Avidemux for video. It wasn't coming up in searches. And Cute wasn't coming up in any Best Of list. I just happened to come across it through a Softpedia link. 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. Also, from the posting Arlen gave, you'll notice it's using an old mp4 codec, and not the h.264 version. I'm not suggesting their programs don't work, just that you (generally) get what you pay for. Maybe somebody can investigate a few of their programs further. They also have a mp4 video converter that says "you can cut any segements as you like". Really??? Does it actually cut anywhere, or only on I frames? (I'd bet the latter). BTW, the VideoHelp is an excellent reference site for all things video. Bookmark it: https://www.videohelp.com/ |
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