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I second OBS. It works great for capturing windows and screens. The only issue I had with it is that Windows Media Player won't play the "Advanced Video Codec"
by DennisMoore 11y ago
I second OBS. It works great for capturing windows and screens. The only issue I had with it is that Windows Media Player won't play the "Advanced Video Codec" that it records with, so I had to run it through Handbrake.
- zokier 11y agoAdvanced Video Codec, or AVC, is just another name for bog-standard H.264.
- voltagex_ 11y agoI wonder if it's just the profile that WMP has problems with. I'd be interested in comparing the `mediainfo` output of both a Handbrake and a OBS encoded video - I suspect Handbrake is still extremely conservative with what it outputs (at the expense of a bit of quality)
- delgaudm 11y agoOn the flip side, I found that OBS brought my -- admittedly older -- MPB to its knees such that the app I was trying to show wouldn't perform. Huge lengths of video were frozen. Same on an older first-gen i7 Windows machine. I never did figure it out.
- Akkuma 11y agoThis is probably a configuration issue, although OBS has more issues OS X for a variety of reasons. I've ran OBS on my 10 year old PC while coding without much issue.
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- Akkuma 11y agoI'd recommend using http://www.cccp-project.net/ http://www.cccp-project.net/ or http://haruhichan.com/forum/showthread.php?7545-KCP-Kawaii-Codec-Pack http://haruhichan.com/forum/showthread.php?7545-KCP-Kawaii-C... and never using WMP ever again for viewing videos.
- voltagex_ 11y agoRecommending codec packs seems like outdated advice these days. VLC has much less of an impact on the system itself.