Talk:List of screen recording software
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This page was created as a reference to list useful screen recording software. It should follow the style and format of previous examples established by similar Wikipedia pages...
The resources for Screen Recording should be a guide for folks seeking information on HOWTO create & produce screen recordings going forward. How to best organize the diverse collection of resources which overlaps with CBT, Presentation, Video, and Flash and eludes me some & I'm open for suggestions... - Awildman 22:34, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
There are some serious questions over exactly what is classed as "screen recording". Very view of these applications appear to do any real screen recording, but can dump from their video feed, or stream video from the screen for further manipulation. While others may only capture certain types of on screen activity (ie: videos, flash, in game, etc), there appears to be very little definition as to actually what these applications do in terms of screen recording. --Hm2k 13:47, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Agreed, that is why I was interested in improving the Screencast or Screen Recording pages which has a broader 'definition'. Please see some of the Talk:Screencast there. -HTH Awildman 20:09, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Categorizing Screen Recording Tools
Many of these Screen Recording tools are not complete solutions, but small apps and utils that fulfill a specific need or piece of the puzzle required for producing a complete "Movie" in one of the many Video Formats suitable for playback on a particular system or Media Players. These movies are called many things (Video Presentations, Demos, Screen Recordings, ScreenCasts, Screenies, VodCasts, WebCasts, CBTs... incomplete list). One of the problems formating this "List of screen recording software" is briefly describing what these tools do, how they can be used to produce a "movie" and what their dependencies are. For example, many of these tools like Wink do not record or mix audio which may be desired in the final movie product. But, using a tool like Audacity an audio stream can be recorded, edited and combined with the Wink screen recording (which is why Audacity was included originally). Similarly, FFmpeg provides codecs and libraries that other screen recording tools and players depend on. Mixing Video+Audio and producing a final screen recording "movie" with nice transitions, effects and compressing it to play on the most popular players is why there are so many expensive commercial solutions. The 'Easy Button' ain't cheap.
[edit] To Do List
- Differentiate between Video Capture/Editing and Screen Recording
- Comparison of Screen Recording Software similar to Comparison of Video Editing Software
- Categories of Tools used to produce Screen Recordings
(Video Capture, Video Editor/Mixers, Codecs, Media Players, Audio Editors... incomplete list)
- Video Formats used in Screen Recording Videos
- Comparison of Video File Formats, similar to Comparison of Graphics File Formats
- Comparison of media players - FFmpeg library dependency issues
- VLC media player (uses libavcodec)
- MPlayer and MEncoder (uses libavcodec and libavformat)
- ffdshow (uses libavcodec)
- xine (uses libavcodec)
- Commercial software and shareware - Windows only, unless specified
- Windows software from Microsoft
- Apple Mac OS X only
- Cross-platform, free or open source software (FOSS)
- Flash Flash Video-FLV resources - FOSS, Linux or cross-platform
- Screen Recording Development (command line), scripting, FLV, SWF, ActionScript development tools
- Automating Screen Recordings
- Awildman 22:53, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
