Camstudio is a free screen capture and video recorder. It’s a great free tool to use to make YouTube videos. Learn more about Camstudio at www.nixstudio.com
Learn how to fix the camstudio will not open issue. This is ebcause camstudio is running in the background so you will need to start task manager and delete the recording.exe process.
Learn how to set and use some of cam studios main features.
Learn how to zoom into content while capturing your content and video.
Learn how to have a nice big background around your mouse curser while recording or capturing your video using CamStudio.
Watch my how to and learn how to capture screen and video for personal use or to upload onto YouTube
Zoom it - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx
Legacy Version of CamStudio 2.0 if having key-polling issues with Minecraft and others:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/files/legacy/
You can use VirtualDub (free!) to change the frame-rate for playback to anything you like. http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/
Common CamStudio issues:
WaveoutGetSelectControl() failed
Here are some instructions for enabling Stereo Mix (sometimes also called Wave Out Mix)recording:
1. Select "Sound" from the control panel.
2. Select the recording tab.
3. Right click on the background of the tab and choose "show disabled devices".
4. Right click on Stereo Mix and click enable.
5. Make Stereo Mix as your Standard
6. Now it should work, allowing you to record any sound your computer makes.
7. Start Cam Studio
8. Go to Options\ Audio Options for Speaker
9. Choose at Soundcard Device "Stereomix"
10. Go to Options and enable "Record audio from speakers"
For the more complex users:
"Capture Frames Every
This field determines the input frame rate. It dictates how long the CamStudio will "sleep" after capturing each frame. One millisecond is 1/1000 of a second.
If you set this to a large value (for example 1 hour, or 3,600,000 milliseconds), you practically create a time-lapse movie. CamStudio will actually "sit and watch" for activities on the screen that takes a long time to occur and take a snapshot (say, only once every hour).
Playback Rate
Recommended rate is 10 frames per second, it's smooth enough to see what happens, leads to small file size and is close to the speed CamStudio is capable of capturing the screen."
(taken with some editing from the commercial lossless compressor site for ScreenPressor at http://www.thedeemon.com/ScreenPressor/record_screen.html - I am not endorsing them nor recommending them (I never tried it and know nothing about their compressor), but their tutorial was good on this point!) [end Edit]
In other words, for a 10 fps playback rate, set this value to 100.
so,
for 5 frames per second frame rate, the "capture frames every" should be set at 200.
for 1 frame per second frame rate, the "capture frames every" would be set at 1000.
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