Open Source Video Capture from a Win32 Window?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday December 3, 2002 @12:17PM from the similar-problem-different-perspective dept.

Phleg asks; "A professor of mine has been using TechSmith's Camtasia Studio software in order to take movies of what's going on on his screen. However, it's buggy, expensive, and a hassle. I've looked around the web for something that's GPL'd that can accomplish the same thing, and come up with nothing useful. The final stipulation is that it has to work under Windows, as much of the software he uses (Scientific Workplace, for one) is Windows-only. Has anyone found a (free) way to capture what's displayed on screen into a video, as well as grabbing inputs from a mic? Any codec would be fine." Those interested in a similar solution for Linux might be interested in this discussion.

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Not open source, but... by n9hmg · 2002-12-03 16:33 · Score: 0, Troll

MicroSloth wmv encoder
Free, and works well.
We just recorded ~40 technical presentations at the division's annual conference with it, and it actually worked, quite well.
/me punishes self for speaking well of "he who must not be named".