Recording my computer activities

[Shoyriazu]

Okay, I'm not sure how to explain this, but I will try my best. What I want to do is record what I am doing on my computer. For example, if I am playing a video game and I want to record footage of that video game, how would I go about doing so? Is there a program that captures your computer screen activities and records it into an .avi or some kind of container?

I would need something that records both monitor video and sound. If anyone can help or needs more information, feel free to post. Thanks to anyone who can help.

[yoda313]

Try something like fraps (uncompressed avi though - huge files).

There are many other divx capable screen recorders out there as well.

[daamon]

I second fraps - an excellent little tool. You just need a big (huge) hard drive for the uncompressed AVI.

Look in the "Desktop/Screen capture" category of the "Tools" section for others.

[Shoyriazu]

oh there they are thanks yoda and daamon lol, I think i'm going blind *_*

[MOVIEGEEK]

You could use the MPEG-4 codec to capture with CamStudio,high quality without the huge file size.

[yoda313]

Moviegeek - I had installed that mpeg-4 codec you suggested and tested it with fraps thinking you were referrin to that.

Now fraps crashes the game when I hit record!! I can still play the game if I don't use fraps but the recording won't work.

I used a codec tool in the tools list on videohelp to disable the three mpeg4 vki codecs but it still crashes when I try to record with fraps.

Any ideas?????

Its not urgent since I can still play the games but its weird.

FYI - sorry for going a little offtopic here.

[Josef Kneht]

you can use Windows Media Encoder Ulility.
It's free and Microsoft has a special screen capture codec

[steptoe]

Have a look at HyperSnap-DX, it can take screen snapshots and also record basically anything on your screen, including DirectX source to screenshots or video