CamStudio

CamStudio

CamStudio v.2.5 beta 1 screenshot on Windows 7
Developer(s) nickthegeek, windycity, wolfpackmars2, romulus9, jpetroules, gotschai, bleeblap
Initial release October 2001 (2001-10)
Stable release 2.5 Beta 1 / September 6, 2007; 4 years ago (2007-09-06)
Preview release 2.6, release 294 / October 27, 2010; 15 months ago (2010-10-27)[1]
Development status Available
Written in C++
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Platform Microsoft Windows
Available in English
Type Screencasting software
License GNU General Public License
Website camstudio.org

CamStudio is a screencasting program for Microsoft Windows released as free software. The software renders videos in an AVI format. It can also convert these AVIs into Flash Video format, embedded in SWF files. CamStudio is written in C++, but CamStudio 3 will be developed in C#.

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History

The original CamStudio was released as an open source product by RenderSoft software in October 2001.[2] The source code license was converted to the GNU General Public License in December 2002 with release 1.8.[3] The Source code of versions 1.0, 1.4 and 2.0 are still available at SourceForge.

In 2003, the company was acquired by eHelp Corporation who owned a competing product called RoboDemo (now called Adobe Captivate[4][5][6]). eHelp Corporation released an updated version as CamStudio 2.1 under a proprietary software license only and removed the ability to create SWFs.[7] A succession of acquisitions led to the company being owned by Adobe.

Development of CamStudio 2.0 (the last open-source version) was resumed and released as free software again in September 2007 with the CamStudio 2.5 Beta 1 release.[8] Accordingly, it was re-branded as CamStudio Open Source.

CamStudio 3 is a complete rewrite of the project in the pre-alpha stages of development as of April 19, 2010, and is seeking developers.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ Release-Notes, CamStudio
  2. ^ "source code for CamStudio v1.0 to v1.25s (archive.org)". Archived from the original on 2002-12-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20021217161236/www.rendersoftware.com/products/camstudio/source.htm. 
  3. ^ "source code for CamStudio v1.8s is now under GPL (archive.org)". Archived from the original on 2003-02-10. http://web.archive.org/web/20030210121741/www.rendersoftware.com/products/camstudio/source.htm. 
  4. ^ "Introducing Macromedia Captivate (adobe.com)". http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/sfleischer_captivate.html. Retrieved 2009-10-22. 
  5. ^ "Webinar: Captivate + Connect Pro (adobe.com)". http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2009/10/webinar_captivate_connect_pro.html. Retrieved 2009-10-22. 
  6. ^ "Introducing Adobe Captivate 2: Changing the way you author interactive content (adobe.com)". http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/sfleischer_captivate2.html. Retrieved 2009-10-22. 
  7. ^ "CamStudio's History". http://camstudio.org/. 
  8. ^ CamStudio 2.5 Beta 1 release
  9. ^ "CamStudio Support Forum". http://camstudio.org/forum/discussion/comment/1323#Comment_1323. 

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