How to capture video?

[YL3GDY]

Hi All,

recently I've decided to make my first Orbiter video. But I have troubles in capturing video from screen.

I'm using CamStudio 2.0, with ffdshow encoding. When I try to watch captured video, I see only the first frame and no changes (duration of video is right). I've tried to capture in DirectX mode (Orbiter) and in normal mode (Windows Explorer window), but the result is always the same.

Can someone help with this problem?

 

[Tex]

Use Fraps mate, its the best.

http://tex-films.com/forum/faq.php?faq=filmfaq

 

[TSPenguin]

I also suggest recording in a lossless format like Huffyuv and then encode it with a dedicated encoder.
This will also give you much better quality as you can run several passes encodes. Single pass (on the fly) encoding is very very limited in respect to quality vs. bitrate.
As nice as ffdshow is, it is at least as problematic, especialy when encoding.

 

[n0mad23]

I use Camstudio for cpu reasons (yes, my machine's a bit slow!). I've used Morgan JPEG-encoder v3 without any problems. You might try this.

 

[YL3GDY]

Thanks folks for your advice. I've tried to use last version of Fraps. It worked ok, fullscreen orbiter is being normally recorded, but framerate falls to 15 fps (in Fraps settings frequency is set to 25fps; orbiter resolution 1280x1024).

Is there any method to increase fps during recording other than decreasing screen resolution?

My PC specs:
Processor - Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz (630J, single core, 2MB of L2 cache)
RAM - 1 GB DDR2 800MHz
HDD - Seagate 320GB SATAII (16Mb cache)
Video - RADEON GeCube X600 256MB VRAM(400MHz) on PCI-X

 

[Tex]

First of all, always record with Fraps at 30fps, but it's true fraps does take some fps away. It works best if you have a second hard drive you can record to which is not running windows and Orbiter.