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What's a good free desktop screen recorder?
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 17:07:31 -0200, Shadow wrote:
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:48:45 -0800, 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). I favor FastStone's FSCapture, but it's not free. There is a free version of FSCapture v5.3 available from https://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/faststone/ |
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What's a good free desktop screen recorder?
"Monty" wrote
| There is a free version of FSCapture v5.3 available from | | https://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/faststone/ | That seems to be only screen capture, not video capture. |
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What's a good free desktop screen recorder?
Mayayana wrote:
"Paul" wrote Read the article first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamStudio Second post: I do wonder about the diagonal image. The program is small, simple and easy to use. VLC plays the resulting AVI files fine. But if I use VLC to convert to mp4 or if I load it into Avidemux, in both cases it shows up as a diagonal image. The video seems to work. It just displays skewed at about a 45 degree angle. I've never seen anything like that before. (Coming into this a bit late, so I might have missed something). I was going to suggest another video converter (to mp4), but did you check out some of the screencasting software listings mentioned below? And some of them have direct mp4 output, it seems (Open Broadcaster Software and Screen O Matic): https://www.nextofwindows.com/6-best...ls-for-windows |
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What's a good free desktop screen recorder?
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:02:45 -0700, Bill in Co wrote:
(Coming into this a bit late, so I might have missed something). I was going to suggest another video converter (to mp4), but did you check out some of the screencasting software listings mentioned below? And some of them have direct mp4 output, it seems (Open Broadcaster Software and Screen O Matic): https://www.nextofwindows.com/6-best...ls-for-windows I covered both of them in my post earlier on this topic, where my list seems extensive based on the responses so far, but where I'm not sure of all the shenanigans that each software tries to pull on unsuspecting users. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.comp.freeware/PmJ0dn3gots Where, for example, Screenomatic has both a watermark & 15-minute limit. All the work, IMHO, of this freeware, is going to be in finding the last crippled of the freeware (and the ones with the fewest shenanigans). There is only one way to tell which have the fewest shenanigans though. J. P. Gilliver brought up a good point in that the free screen recorders don't always save videos in the format you want them to, where Mayayana brought up a good point that those he tested were limited in some way as to their output (AVI, for example). While conversion has its own additional problem sets, I looked up the converter programs so as to add value to this conversation, where the ones I found to be good are listed below, with the latest tested URLs as of today. 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 o US/Euro patents expired on ffmpeg so it may also come in handy. https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html Since the immense cost of freeware is in all the efforts to find the best ones, my vote, from experience using only "some" of those above, is Shotcut. Once you've used Shotcut, you'll never want to use Pinnacle Studios, for example, IMHO. |
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In message , Mayayana
writes: "Shadow" wrote | Try this: | | http://www.gilisoft.com/free-screen-recorder.htm | I just downloaded it. Clean. I just unpacked the Inno installer and it seems to work OK. But then it immediately tried to call: 184.173.250.45 SoftLayer Technologies Then the window came up and asked me to buy or "evaluate". That's sleazy. Even the download name calls it the free version. But the program is not free. It's just a trial version. I never tried it to see whether it works. Agreed. If something has "free" anywhere about it, but certainly in the filename, it should be free. Not trial, and certainly not buy. I've nothing against trialware, as long as it is made clear that that's what it is. [] I downloaded the above when shadow recommended it - and there were/are a lot of things about it that look good (user-settable watermarks, zoom, varying-during-capture capture area [though how that plays should be interesting!], and others), but if it's going to not be free, I might well delete it without even trying. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf If you help someone when they're in trouble, they will remember you when they're in trouble again. |
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In message , Mayayana
writes: "Monty" wrote | There is a free version of FSCapture v5.3 available from | | https://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/faststone/ | That seems to be only screen capture, not video capture. Any comments? (It came well-recommended in another thread - I forget what about - not too long ago, but I see I have no files with fsca in the name [thanks Everything!], so there must have been a reason I didn't download it then.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf If you help someone when they're in trouble, they will remember you when they're in trouble again. |
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote
| That seems to be only screen capture, not | video capture. | | | Any comments? | Comments? I downloaded it and tried it. There's no video. And the webpage Monty linked doesn't mention video. No one needs special software for screen capture. I just use Ctrl + Prt Scr and paste it to Paint Shop Pro. I guess there was a misunderstanding about the difference between video and images. CamStudio looks like the best to me so far, except for the glitch of VLC converting it to diagonal when it converts to mp4. |
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"Bill in Co" wrote
| And some | of them have direct mp4 output, it seems (Open Broadcaster Software and | Screen O Matic): | | https://www.nextofwindows.com/6-best...ls-for-windows | | Screen-o-matic is a sleazeball blurring of service and software. It's possible to download an installer. Th download link is way down at the bottom of their dysfunctional webpage, and below several links to "launch" the editor online. But then the installed program refuses to work at all without being able to go online. 50.16.249.198 Amazon AWS A window comes up saying "Failed to download the latest version of the app!" (It actually has an exclamation point. The call home was blocked by my firewall. It then goes on to explain how I'll need to check things like AV and firewalls to make sure the software can call home. I'm left slack-jawed by the shameless nerve of these people. Like so many of these misleading come-ons, they lie. Their page specifically says there's a download version available, but that's just a technicality: You can have a spyware web service that seems to be online or you can have a spyware web service that seems to be locally installed. Probably it's like Photoshop and other so-called services: The software runs locally. The service part is the spyware and perhaps ads. Their privacy policy basically says as much: https://screencast-o-matic.com/privacy They collect personal info for use with ads; tracking data regarding your use of the product; spyware web bugs in their email. Their business model is spyware and ads. It's an interesting presentation. I suppose people with computer phones are used to all sorts of oily demands for personal info, but this is the first time I've actually seen a product that pretends to be legitimate software while actually insisting that I accomodate spyware and ads. Nowhere in their page or in the installer did I see anything about the product requiring spyware and ads in order to work. OBS doesn't support XP, though it looks like it might be promising for people who want it on Win7. |
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"Bill in Co" wrote
| Screen O Matic): | More on screencast-o-matic: http://www.buzzfile.com/business/Big...C-206-898-8658 https://www.whois.com/whois/screencast-o-matic.com Big Nerd Software. It's apparently one person. The website is registered with GoDaddy and hosted on Amazon. This brings up interesting issues. Shareware is often written by individuals or small companies, but they don't normally ask you to trust them with your personal info. Yet these online services and things like phone apps collect a great deal without being in any position to take responsibility. Screencast-o-matic doesn't even run their own secure server. They rent from Amazon. And they share your info with 3rd parties for advertising or to "improve the service". (Translation: We share for any damn reason we want to share.) I saw a related article today at Slashdot that demonstrated the general lack of security and privacy with servicey apps: A data company buys user data from lots of cellphone app makers. Many of them require location data. They then make extra income by selling that to data companies. Some data company sold an "inside scoop" to their Wall Street customers, using the phone data to learn that Tesla's factory had upped their night shift crew by 30%, clearly increasing production. (They figured that out by defining a geo-ring around the Tesla factory and counting the number of cellphones calling home from inside that perimeter! In other words, they can track virtually every cellphone.) Meanwhile the clown selling the data to the data dealer could be anyone, and can legally (in the US) sell it to anyone. They could be a halfwit college student making a silly game or a restaurant guide or a movie listings app. And almost invisibly they end up selling your location and personal info to anyone willing to give them a few cents. I see no reason to think screencast-o-matic is any different. |
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What's a good free desktop screen recorder?
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:41:10 -0200, Shadow wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 09:04:58 -0500, "Mayayana" wrote: "Shadow" wrote | Try this: | | http://www.gilisoft.com/free-screen-recorder.htm | I just downloaded it. Clean. I just unpacked the Inno installer and it seems to work OK. Yes, I do that too. And eliminate anything that looks like a downloader. But then it immediately tried to call: 184.173.250.45 SoftLayer Technologies Then the window came up and asked me to buy or "evaluate". That's sleazy. Even the download name calls it the free version. But the program is not free. It's just a trial version. I never tried it to see whether it works. Yes, well, I automatically block anything like that with my firewall. And trace it, so I can undo anything "extra" it might have done (with Gilisoft, usually only a few benign registry keys and some entries in App data or whatever). Do you mean I'm going to have to do it myself ? OK. I will. []'s It's crippleware. Sticks a watermark in the middle of the videos. A small watermark that will not mess up the video, but looks cheap. They could have put it in a corner. Tried a simple tutorial while playing music with Winamp, and it captured the sound OK. Put VLC in the capture zone and played a video, but VLC had a black screen in the playback, so it can't capture that. Doesn't write anything to registry, just a couple of files to the install folder. But then I didn't install, I just unpacked. And yes, it phones home on startup. Conclusion: If you are doing a quick and easy tutorial in MP4 format for a friend who doesn't mind a watermark, it works. The video files are quite small and of adequate quality. Otherwise, look elsewhere. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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Thanks to everyone who answered.
OBS: Free, but darn complicated for a newbie. I was trying to record a live video stream on a web page, but kept getting its whole web page as shown in my https://imgur.com/a/vdu33on screen captures. I only wanted the video part (no black (area/border)s, web page, etc. I must be missing something as newbie. CamStudios seem to have a malware in its installer file. https://virusscan.jotti.org/en-US/fi...job/ydbrecqpne, https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/samp...6c47392c691215, etc. confirm it. I will avoid that! Bascialy, I just need a free simple recorder from my desktop (not just streaming videos). 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). -- Quote of the Week: "Ants! Why don't we all line up like a [bleeped] bunch of ants! It's the most beautiful part of the day!" --Robert Eroica Dupea in Five Easy Pieces movie Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / http://antfarm.ma.cx / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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"pjp" wrote
| Not really much different then the sites require you to download their | installer to download the app you actually want. No way one can know | what that installer actually does beforehand so I just walk away from | all of them and look somewhere else. It's becoming more common. Microsoft calls it a one-click installer, but it really means letting a program go online to download and install the software. I find that increasingly I have to look for what they now call an offline installer, which is the real software installer. In this case I suspect it was even worse than just spyware that wanted to control the process. Even though the installer was a rather bloated 17 MB, and seemed to be a spo-called offline installer, I suspect that was only the beginning. As the installer ran I saw files with extension .jar flash by in the progress. I realized afterward that screencast-o-matic was probably designed to install an entire Java runtime, from online, without even asking.... all just to take screenshots of the desktop! That was on top of the 50-odd MB the installer was unpacking and whatever else it wanted to get from online. |
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"Ant" wrote
| CamStudios seem to have a malware in its installer file. | https://virusscan.jotti.org/en-US/fi...job/ydbrecqpne, Did you see my post about that? You're downloading the online installer stub, 2.8 MB, which then goes online to get more files. The 10 MB real installer from Major Geeks is fine. The version you downloaded probably doesn't have malware, based on the so-called trojans that were found. They indicate, rather, that the installer may be setting up adware and/or mining bitcoin, as a payment for the software. But if you just want to take a video of a video then why not get something like youtube-dl or download helper? The former seems to be able to download just about any video. |
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Mayayana wrote:
"Ant" wrote | CamStudios seem to have a malware in its installer file. | https://virusscan.jotti.org/en-US/fi...job/ydbrecqpne, Did you see my post about that? You're downloading the online installer stub, 2.8 MB, which then goes online to get more files. The 10 MB real installer from Major Geeks is fine. The version you downloaded probably doesn't have malware, based on the so-called trojans that were found. They indicate, rather, that the installer may be setting up adware and/or mining bitcoin, as a payment for the software. Ah. I wished they had a portable version. But if you just want to take a video of a video then why not get something like youtube-dl or download helper? The former seems to be able to download just about any video. Well, I don't want to download the whole video. Just parts of the very long and huge live streams. -- Quote of the Week: "Ants! Why don't we all line up like a [bleeped] bunch of ants! It's the most beautiful part of the day!" --Robert Eroica Dupea in Five Easy Pieces movie Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / http://antfarm.ma.cx / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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