Free AMCAP Alternate?

[Mickz]

Can anyone recommend me a good free capturing tool. I really like and use AMCAP (https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=AMcap) But it is shareware(Demo). And I hate the software of my webcam. Are there any other free webcam capturing tools?

[zoobie]

how about winDV or DVIO

[edDV]

Virtualdub should do the job

[deckard8]

There's an older Amcap (2.72 - fully functional) available from the
BTWincap driver site.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/btwincap/wdmmiscutils2.73.zip?download

[dphirschler]

I like Virtual VCR. I switched to that a few years ago and have never looked back. I personally like how you can save and load profiles since I often capture in both PAL and NTSC.


Darryl

[Mickz]

zoobie: USB Devices wont work with those tools.

edDV: I have virtualdub. How do i setup my webcam with it? looks complicated.

deckard8: Thanks I used to take stills with "Enter" Key. How do i take one with that version?

[edDV]

webcams are usually "video for windows" uncompressed at low resolutions and low framerates. They usually need a driver for control. Once the driver is installed, the webcam will show under capture devices and the controls show under preferences

[Paul Glagla]

Captureflux is excellent with most webcams, and has many features like taking snapshots, scheduling the capture, inlaying the date.

[John Peterson]

If you just want the lightweight fullscreen view the program offers I didn't find these tools satisfying, but this open source modification does that http://code.google.com/p/amcap/.

A lightweight fullscreen webcam viewer with full resolution and fps configuration was surprisingly difficult to find, but this program does that.