What's a good program to record videos or screencasts being played on screen?
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I've had success with Camtasia / CamStudio. Check out http://showmedo.com for tutorials. It's a little recursive though - it would be better to capture it from source.
harriyott
2008-09-12 17:05:41
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Lot more info in a previous question
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16763/tips-on-recording-a-webcast
Gulzar
2008-09-12 17:09:31
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If you're using Vista the latest version of Fraps might also do what you need. I haven't tried it for that, though, just games
Chuck
2008-09-12 17:14:33
It seems the WoW community uses that extensively ;)
2008-09-12 17:16:38
Fraps only records DirectX or OpenGL renderings such as games. Probably not best suited for general screencast recording.
Craig Tyler
2008-09-12 19:24:51
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On Windows, you have CamTasia (commercial), CamStudio (GPL), FRAPS (commercial with free trial).
FRAPS will definitely do your job, it was designed to capture videos of 3D games. CamTasia might, it has a low-level custom codec (TechSmith Capture Codec). CamStudio probably won't, at least not smoothly. CamStudio has issues on Vista, I don't know about FRAPS, CamTasia is fine on Vista.
On the Mac try ScreenFlow, their example video makes it clear it can capture live video streams.
On Linux you'll be in a bit of trouble. If you recompile ffmpeg you might get it recording video. I think recordmydesktop won't do the job.
Ian Ozsvald
2008-09-19 09:39:12
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DemoCreator could be an good option. It is easy to use, and there are powerful editing features with it.