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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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"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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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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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. Path: aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JBI Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general Subject: free screen capture software? Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:29:24 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 2 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 13:29:24 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="23a7fbce4214a2966c05da4ac8444482"; logging-data="15840"; "; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+QGiN2FhHsGw2YQW4agsMX" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:RzVCqUMSXDzHcaX2lm400Kdw2fk= Content-Language: en-US X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Xref: aioe.org alt.windows7.general:38111 -- With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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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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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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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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"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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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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