Window Capture

[dblyth]

Does anyone know of some capturing software
that can capture a movie currently playing in a Window
(e.g. MS Media Player or DivX player, etc) to a new
movie file (e.g. *.AVI).

For example various WinDVD recorder type programs require
a capture device such as cam corder, but I want to capture
from the contect of a particular Windows Handle.

This would allow me to capture from internet streaming content.

[Capmaster]

Nope. I think you need to save the streaming content as a movie file and then convert it using one of the tools listed in the tool section here.

I don't know of any app that will do a movie capture similar to a screen JPG capture using a window like that. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd be surprised if there were any.

[Guest]

Nope. I think you need to save the streaming content as a movie file and then convert it using one of the tools listed in the tool section here.

I don't know of any app that will do a movie capture similar to a screen JPG capture using a window like that. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd be surprised if there were any.

What about camstudio?

[Capmaster]

Nope. I think you need to save the streaming content as a movie file and then convert it using one of the tools listed in the tool section here.

I don't know of any app that will do a movie capture similar to a screen JPG capture using a window like that. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd be surprised if there were any.

What about camstudio?

I'll be damned. 8) Someone finally made an app to do that. A few years back I wanted one and looked all over, with no luck.

[xtreemkareem]

Camtasia Studio will do what you want, but it is a hog on resources. On my system, capturing a 24fps MOV file at VCD resolution ended up in a number of dropped frames, even w. hardware acceleration off and decent system specs. I would reccomend a top of the line system to begin to do much with screen capture other than capturing flash animation (which are ususally low framerate).

[dblyth]

Thanks for the help guys.

However I just downloaded and tried out CamStudio.

It does capture whats happening on the screen but not
the contents of a movie file being played inside a media
player like.

I tried a number of AVI and MPEG movie files within
MS Media Player and the DivX player. Each time CamStudio
only records a black screen within the media players window,
(same happens when the media player is set to full screen).

Any thoughts?

[Baldrick]

Thanks for the help guys.

However I just downloaded and tried out CamStudio.

It does capture whats happening on the screen but not
the contents of a movie file being played inside a media
player like.

I tried a number of AVI and MPEG movie files within
MS Media Player and the DivX player. Each time CamStudio
only records a black screen within the media players window,
(same happens when the media player is set to full screen).

Any thoughts?

open two media players and play same clip in both, the last window will have overlay disabled and you should be able to capture from it.

[dblyth]

Nice one, that works. Now I just need to deal
with the performance.

[Josef K]

You could always give SnagIt a go to compare. One nice feature is that it can be made to capture only a selected window, region or object - saving you from cropping out the unneeded parts. So you'd be able to select just the portion of the window that the actual video is playing in and record that - not menus, buttons or whatever else.

[Alan69]

Thanks for the help guys.

I tried a number of AVI and MPEG movie files within
MS Media Player and the DivX player. Each time CamStudio
only records a black screen within the media players window,
(same happens when the media player is set to full screen).

Any thoughts?

Open Windows Media Player. Tools, Options, Performance, Video Acceleration area, Advanced, uncheck 'Use Overlays' in both places.

Alan

[dblyth]

Is there a way to disable overlays in the DivX player?

I also tried to help the performance by playing the movie file
from another machine over a LAN and then using CamStudio
to capture it to the HD but this didn't seem to help much
with the dropped frames.

[bottle-necked]

Resize the player to a very small size, adjust your capture setting to a very small framesize, and give it a go.

I did all this awhile back trying to capture media player visualizations. It's tough but possible. Just start off on a very small scale then work your way up. A small windows and framesize will help your performance a bunch.

Codec is another matter you'll need to test. I think I used HuffYUV but I can't remember.

Good luck.