gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » fraps http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:53:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windows Video Capture Software Debuthttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/06/windows-video-capture-software-debut/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/06/windows-video-capture-software-debut/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:16:18 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5889 Most Windows video capture software programs have some sort of limitations like a time limit or watermarks when capturing video. The good thing about Debut Video Capture Software (via Freeware Genius) is that it is totally free and comes with no limitations. The video capture software works with internal and external video capture cards, webcams and can also capture almost everything that is shown on the monitor screen.

Debut can capture the entire screen or a rectangular area selected by the user plus it can record sound from any source connected to the computer if so desired. It has a wide range of output formats and quality settings. Videos can be captured in avi, mov, flv and several other formats. Several video encoder options can be changed in the program’s settings.

Minor video capture editing is supported as well. The user can change the framerate and size of the output video and apply video effects and text annotations which comes in handy for demonstration videos.

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It can capture fullscreen which it does ok for desktop applications. Before you can capture applications that hide the program interface of Debut you need to set global shortcuts in the program options.

Debut Video Capture Software is definitely more a software to capture the screen or part of the screen that it would be a replacement for applications like Fraps which is great for games. What I really like is that it can capture the sound from a microphone which means that you can create demonstration videos on the fly without having to record the sound in the editing process.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/06/windows-video-capture-software-debut/feed/ 4 Taksi Open Source Alternative to Frapshttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/12/taksi-open-source-alternative-to-fraps/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/12/taksi-open-source-alternative-to-fraps/#comments Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:33:02 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/12/taksi-open-source-alternative-to-fraps/ Fraps is a application that lets you capture videos / screens of 3D applications and is mostly used for recording in game movies. The biggest drawback of Fraps is that it is not freeware, you have to purchase it to use all of its features. Taksi steps in and provides a similar functionality with the advantage that it is Open Source, free for everyone to use and download.

The unregistered version of Fraps stops after 30 seconds of recording and adds a Fraps watermark automatically to the captured video. It does not make lots of sense to use this version but for testing purposes. Taksi on the other hand has no such limitations making it an ideal capturing application for everyone who does not want to buy Fraps.

Taksi is able to use installed video codecs to compress the recorded video on the fly which makes it possible to record very long sequences. The biggest drawback is that Taksi will not record audio as well, you need to find a different way to record the audio. (should work with harddisk ogg for example, not tested though). There are no limitations but the space on your hard disk for recording videos.

I hope the Taksi team decides to integrate audio recording to their application, this seems to be the only thing that is missing to make it a great alternative to Fraps.

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