Background Video Programs

[Darian]

Aren't there video programs that record whatever you have up on screen? If so where can I find one for free or really cheap?

[westy]

Bulent's Screen Recorder

http://johnbokma.com/softwarerecommendations/InstallBSR_v15a.exe

This is pretty old, but the version 1.5a is freeware.

[PsiSoldier28]

FRAPs?

[Keggie]

FRAPs?

i think fraps will only record full screen programs like games and movies. when i saw this thread i tryed to see if fraps did it but couldnt get it to work. might be possbile with fraps but i havent worked it out, simply hiting record doesnt work, there might be a setting somewhere to change it tho

[PsiSoldier28]

FRAPs records anything showing on screen, atleast that's what it does for me .

[Keggie]

hmmm.. might depend on which version you have.. do you have full version? /goes to play with my version of fraps

edit - no, i carnt work out how to record anything but a full screen program like games, or windows movie player, but my version is an older version, new versions may have that ability..

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology.

the website doesnt say anything about recording anything on screen either

[]>CoD<[Chief]

I wonder if you were on vista whether fraps could record your 3D desktop...

[NoData]

SnagIt from TechSmith can record anything on your screen, you can even set a portion, or the entire screen. You need a pretty powerfull machine to do something great. http://www.techsmith.com/download/trials.asp

[SpamSlayer]

Well a trial one is:

http://www.hyperionics.com/hc/index.asp

It does alright, not very good at sound, I just use it to get video
like say there is a video on YouTube that I think hey will delete or something then I can grab it, select the portion of screen I want then record, but I also have a different sound recorder. When done I have the video file and a sound file, then I just open up windows movie maker, put the 2 on one project, match up sound with video, create video, then use my video converter if I need it in a different format

[necros]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx

Windows Media Encoder will take your Screen as an Input source. It will take that and compress it on the fly, or can save it later for multi-pass encoding.