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Hello! I don't have nay experience in such programs so i would like to ask two questions.
I actually want to open this program from a flash file, to start automatically, to record for 15 seconds the whole screen (i found this) and then automatically to stop and save the file in the disk (i found this).
So please can you tell me what kind of parameters i can use in a batch file to call the program?

In my batch file that i call from flash i usually call the program like:

@echo off

start "" "C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe"
@EXIT

Thank you in advance!!!!

select file to save to "is that a file?" (wrong name anyway)
after window should say "saved"
(-t 2 resulted in like one frame, -t 10 in like 3 seconds worth on slow comp). configure by setting numbers: wrong order, also an odd start_x is ok

This is more of a developer to developer complaint than anything else

1. You are hosting on github, and sourceforge. Really? Consolidate it to one domain i say.
2. Paltry information at best to install this
3. Does one need to install ruby to use this?
4. Does one need to install java to use this?
5. Does one need to modify the PATH to use this?

This information is critical to installation yet is not listed anywhere. You include FFmpeg exe but not a single mention of ruby.

Right now we can use only the libx264 codec (which is a very good choice, btw.), but there could be situations where we might prefer others like libvpx, wmv2, yuv420 (rawvideo) or ffv1.

The users has no option to change it right now, and it would be great.

When I compare the original and recorded video there is a value difference in the green channel. The strange thing is that the other red/blue channels are not affected.

On the screenshot I attached you can see the original video on the right and the screen captured version of it on the left.

When I check the attached image in Photoshop with the color picker tool, I got 15-25 differences in the green value.

I got Windows 8 64bit. What can be the reason for this?

Hi,
I am using SCR to record a video source. The resulting video created by SCR shows the video source as black (just the widow containing the video source, the desktop and the rest of the screen is perfectly fine). If during the recording i manually move the window displaying the video source, it is instantly visible but goes back to black.

The video source i am trying to record is comming from a video capture card working at 60fps.

Any suggestions of what can i do?

hello sir,
i am using cable advetiesment software.its mixing picture slide with picture.
when i am using your software its does not show video files.its show only picture slide.
can you help for that?i attach snap shot of it.
thnx.

Now the codec libx264 uses the 'ultrafast' preset which is reasonable. If the user has a powerful computer it would make sense to use another (more CPU intense) preset.

This setting can not be changed at the moment, it would be nice to have a dropdown option in the configuration tool.

This may be a VLC-specific thing, but, as the title suggests, when you are recording a video and switch resolutions mid-record, the video from that point on cannot be played.

To reproduce:

1. Install VLC (2.0.5 Twoflower)...
2. Install On Screen Capture Recorder to Video free (v0.9.1)
3. Start VLC.
4. Go "Media" > "Convert / Save...".
5. Click the "Capture Device" tab.
6. Select "DirectShow" as the capture device, "screen-capture-recorder" as the video device, and "virtual-audio-capturer" as the audio device.
7. Click "Convert / Save".
8. Set the destination file to somewhere you'll remember and call it "test.mpg". (So that it will recognize as an MPEG)
9. Set the Settings "Profile" to "Video - H.264 + MP3 (MP4)".
10. Click "Start".
11. Do something that changes your resolution, start a game, or set the resolution from the Control Panel, or have-at-you.
12. Switch to VLC, and click "Stop" to stop recording.
13. Open the video you just recorded and look in amazement as the video plays until you make it to the part where you changed resolutions.

After starting the capture from the configuration utility, the frame of the transparent window which was used to select the area to be recorded should be kept visible on the top of all windows to get the sense of the borders of the video.

Hi!

Thanks for the great piece of free software! My project wouldn't be possible without open source contributors like yourself.

While your examples show successful encoding to x264, there is a compelling reason to want to use Xiph.Org Theora video encoder. It's less CPU-intensive, which is good for real-time needs, and is without patent violation or other licensing worries.

Anyway, hooking the screen-capture-recorder output to the Theora encoder is allowed in GraphEdit, but when the graph is played, the program crashes with an Access Violation error.

I am able to use the screen-capture-recorder with other video encoders, and I am able to use the Theora encoder with other capture sources. It's only when I use the two together that my application crashes.

I don't know if the issue is in your filter or theirs, but I thought I would let you know. Thanks, and keep up the hard work!

Here is a screenshot of the simplest graph that will cause the crash:

... and the exact text of the error that follows:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: graphedt.exe
Application Version: 10.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 52158621
Fault Module Name: dsfTheoraEncoder.dll
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4d2cfb04
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00004680
OS Version: 6.3.9600.2.0.0.768.101
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 5861
Additional Information 2: 5861822e1919d7c014bbb064c64908b2
Additional Information 3: d1d9
Additional Information 4: d1d94a13d3609d6b740644c12508f581

The Theora directshow filters can be downloaded here: http://xiph.org/dshow/

After installing "Setup Screen Capturer Recorder v0.9.1.exe" I was getting an error:

generic_run_rb.bat record_with_buttons.rb

LoadError: no such file to load -- jruby-swing-helpers/lib/simple_gui_creator
require at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1010
(root) at ./common_recording.rb:7
require at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1010
(root) at record_with_buttons.rb:2

I installed Setup Screen Capturer Recorder v0.9.0.exe and copied jruby-swing-helpers to configuration_setup_utility directory. That fixed my problem.

for instance if you capture "an 111x111 window" this won't work as input to VLC. It does work as input to FFmpeg, which is odd somehow.

I am using your directshow filter to stream my desktop on a surface pro. The resolution on the device is 1920x1080, the resolution detected by your software is 1280x720 (as recorded in the registry).
I did some searching and I believe this is because of the DPI vs DIP mentioned here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff684173%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

I don't understand all that, but I hope you do.

Thanks.

If we use the HWND capture mode and we also turn on the transparent window before recording to select the area to record, then SCR will record an incorrect part of the target window if that's not at the top left corner of the screen.

The capturing coordinates are not measured from the desktop's top-left corner, but the top-left corner of the target window.

When using SCR as a dshow filter for FFMPEG, Mechwarrior 4 has issues were the textures on some of the objects flicker even though they don't in game. I have tried limiting capture frame rate, but that hasn't worked yet.

ffmpeg has the option to use multiple cores, if we pass the -threads x parameter to it.

I've tested it with the "-threads 8" and it looked like it had an impact on the performance of the codec.

I think others would benefit from this option as well.

I've tested some cases and it looks like ffmpeg can't use the multi-threaded encoding with screen-capture-recorder. It might be a problem with ffmpeg's way to handle dshow inputs, I don't know.

Did anyone else had the same experience? It tried to record a full-hd screen and could not get above the 25% CPU usage on my 4-core machine. I tried both 32 and 64 bit Zeranoe builds (http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/).

I've run the BltTest tool and got significantly different values for HWND and Desktop capture.

Can I set a different resolution to test on my computer?

How can I define for SCR to use the HWND capture mode?

I also downloaded the new version of the BltTest from http://stereopsis.com/blttest/ and got very different values:

work!

what "should" this do anyway? probably try to map to the dshow way...

An option to minimize to the notification area (the part where the icons next to the clock on the task bar are). That icon could be used as an indicator icon if the recording has already started.

Hey,

I'd like to recompile 'screen-capture-recorder.dll' because I'd like to change the name of the DirectShow device as it appears inside ffmpeg/vlc/etc and because, more importantly, I am concerned that other software which makes use of this same .dll will have set registry keys to control the width/height etc but I want that controlled by my own application.

When I open the project and try to compile, I'm getting an error about missing 'streams.h'. I've tried installing the DirectX SDK and trying again but this hasn't helped.

I've not got much experience in this so any help would be really appreciated!

Thanks!,

mouse global position arent updated after window move

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I used SCR v0.9.6 on two different computers.

The capture worked just fine on one of them, but on the other the audio is always getting out of sync when we do a recording.

What can be the cause for this?

Hi! Is it possible to record disconnected remote desktop sessions with this driver ? (Server 2008 R2) The driver functions beautifully [both the shipped java tools and ffmpeg] when I'm connected to the remote session. But if I disconnect (not logout, disconnect) the recorded session is 'black'.

Is this a fundamental limitation of directshow or something that I'm doing wrong that I can work around with some awesome configuration options?

How to capture a specified window, not the screen?

Can I pass it the window handle?

It would be great to see in the configuration util what rate can the codec capture the video at any given moment.

Right now when capture my screen I get a speed of around 20 frames per second. It would be great if I had a chance to tune it up.

I already had the 2010 redistributed package, so I installed this as an administrator. The dshow filters do not install.

Edit: Turns out right click->run as administrator was not enough. If anyone else has this problem, right click it and select run as a different user. The user of the actual administrator account is Administrator, the password is either none or what you've set it to. If you don't see this option, try shift right clicking.

To use custom BitBlt CreateCompatibleDC and CreateCompatibleBitmap
i made dll with thisfunctions comatible with StarCraft : Brood War
https://github.com/mca64/mca64Launcher/blob/master/BroodWarCapture---Delphi-7.2/BroodWarCapture.dpr
exported functions are
SCBW_BitBlt
SCBW_CreateCompatibleDC
SCBW_CreateCompatibleBitmap

Could you make special version for me? using this fuctions loaded from dll instead current. Thanks.

When I have "virtual-audio-capturer" as the audio source ffmpeg won't start encoding until something outputs audio. I just get a freezframe until that. And since the audio starts playing instantly instead of when the actually recording started it will get horribly out of sync.
With other audio sources like "Stereo Mix (ASUS Xonar D1 Audio Device)" or without audio this doesn't happen.

dshow debug: CapturePin::QueryAccept [OK](width=-666, height=406, chroma=RV24, fps=30.000030)

actually I think that's even without a change...

I tried SCR with win8 64bits but without success,
also I can't see the same setting scripts like XP, don't where they are...
is anyone has experienced with this issue ?

Hello,

I'm on 64-bit Windows 7 home premium, and for some reason the actual direct show filter won't install.

-I installed the visual C++ runtime, x86 version (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5555).
-I then installed screen-capture-recorder.
-I ran the "record screen or audio..." link, and it told me I need to install the visual c++ runtime, which I already did.
-I installed the x64 version of the runtime (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=14632).
-I rebooted.
-I ran the "record screen or audio..." link and this time the program opened, but there was no screen capture filter in the dropdown box.
-I ran the "re-register" program. It fails with an error: "The module "PushDesktop.ax" was loaded, the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0x80070005". Still no direct show filter.

My guess is something 64-bit related. Do you have any thoughts? I appreciate the work you've put into this thing!

hwnd_to_track works great but only for client window. Please add support for whole window (GetClientRect --> GetWindowRect). I suggest to overide values for start_x and start_y to 0 when hwnd_to_track is used. Spend some time with why this isnt work, when few months ago i could use it. Will be possible to add support for fast desktop capture on Windows 8? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh404487%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

I know OBS is using this there

Could you tell me more about this track_new_x_y_coords_each_frame_if_1 ?
how it works? Thank You for good work!

Hello!

Everything else is as it should be. The sampling rate and the channel numbers are exactly what I set, only this is different.
Is it a bug? Any way to work around it?

My system is win7 64 bit .
With a video quality of 800 kbps and audio at 2 channel , 128 kbps and 44100 sample rate I was having video quality issues , so I went for 1 channel , 11025 and 64 kbps . I try to do online encoding on 3 cores with the game on the other core . The quality is ok when it works . Trouble is that when the game (or other processes ?) does some loading I belive , the whole setup crashes in the following way : out of 3 cores encoding activity stops except on 1 , vlc continues to work fine doing playback of videos stores on disk , when I close vlc the window closes fine but the process remains active , with >300MB of memory held and I have to kill it in task manager .
I also have a vlc log record from pressing start through the crash and some more stuff that I did in the vlc ui .
If you could think of a reason for the crash or tell me how I may be able to investigate this further I would apreciate it .

See https://gist.github.com/1984842 for the log file .

My system:
win7 64, i7-950, 12g RAM.

i guess this is a problem with the new vlc build, just yesterday i capture without any problem with a previous version of vlc. this keeps happening with and without audio. btw the video codec i'm using is mov/mp4.

The recordings are in MP4, is there a way to change this to AVI or WMV?

Thanks!

Hello, desktop capture, video is very good, audio will frame dropped!

ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="screen-capture-recorder":audio="virtual-audio-capturer" -vf scale=-1:480 -vcodec libx264 -r 60.97 -acodec libvo_aacenc -vbr 3 -ac 2 -ar 44100 -ab 1900 -pix_fmt yuv420p -tune zerolatency -preset ultrafast -f flv "rtmp://192.168.1.50/hls/test"

Any chance this could support multiple instances running simultaneously, with different associated settings and DirectShow device names? E.g. I'd like to have one DirectShow device showing part of a Firefox window, while another DirectShow device shows a video chat window. Or maybe this is already possible and I just haven't found how?

Thanks.

I am working on an app that uses your tool and ffmpeg to record video from our simulation to a file. We are currently using the registry to setup the hwnd and sizes and stuff. However, the target system we will be running this on has security settings in place that prevents any unauthorized access to the registry. Is there anyway of configuring this tool to not use the registry, but instead use a config file or something?

When I start my Skype, I got the following error message while loading:

"assert failed, please fix (or report): hScrDc != 0 PushSourceDesktop.cpp 56"

If I OK the dialog, Skype exits.

Hi
I run the link from the start menu to load the recorder window, as usual, but now it exits automatically, I don't have a chance to do anything....

I tried to run the program from a cmd window, using the parameters I found on the Start menu, and this is what I get:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Screen Capturer Recorder\configuration_setup_utility>cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Screen Capturer R
ecorder\configuration_setup_utility"

C:\Program Files (x86)\Screen Capturer Recorder\configuration_setup_utility>generic_run_rb.bat record_with_buttons.rb
C:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/configuration_setup_utility/jruby-swing-helpers/lib/simple_gui_creator/f
fmpeg_helpers.rb:9 warning: already initialized constant FFmpegNameToUse
record_with_buttons.rb:12 warning: already initialized constant VERSION
starting version 0.12.6
Psych::SyntaxError: (C:/Users/Cristian/.sensible_cinema_storage/record_with_buttons_v7.yaml): unacceptable char
acter '?' (0xFFFD) special characters are not allowed
in "", position 54 at line 0 column 0
parse at org/jruby/ext/psych/PsychParser.java:197
parse_stream at jar:file:/C:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/configuration_setup_utility/jruby-complete-1
.6.4.jar!/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/1.9/psych.rb:203
parse at jar:file:/C:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/configuration_setup_utility/jruby-complete-1
.6.4.jar!/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/1.9/psych.rb:151
load at jar:file:/C:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/configuration_setup_utility/jruby-complete-1
.6.4.jar!/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/1.9/psych.rb:127
load_file at jar:file:/C:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/configuration_setup_utility/jruby-complete-1
.6.4.jar!/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/1.9/psych.rb:297
open at org/jruby/RubyIO.java:1180
load_file at jar:file:/C:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/configuration_setup_utility/jruby-complete-1
.6.4.jar!/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/1.9/psych.rb:297
rollback at C:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/configuration_setup_utility/jruby-swing-helpers/lib/si
mple_gui_creator/storage.rb:68
initialize at C:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/configuration_setup_utility/jruby-swing-helpers/lib/si
mple_gui_creator/storage.rb:41
(root) at record_with_buttons.rb:14

C:\Program Files (x86)\Screen Capturer Recorder\configuration_setup_utility>

I tried to uninstalll/reinstall the program but I get the same problem...

Any hints?

Thanks
Cristian

I've got the following error when I tried to select one of my audio recording devices.
My guess is that the multiple cards/devices on that computer causes the problem, but I'm not sure, I'm not good with Ruby :)

[dshow @ 01f3c000] DirectShow video devices
[dshow @ 01f3c000] "screen-capture-recorder"
[dshow @ 01f3c000] DirectShow audio devices
[dshow @ 01f3c000] "Microphone (Sound Blaster Z)"
[dshow @ 01f3c000] "virtual-audio-capturer"
dummy: Immediate exit requested
"[\u2713:choose_audio_0] "Microphone (Sound Blaster Z) ""
now
"[\u2713:choose_audio_1] "virtual-audio-capturer ""
now
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: (Typ
eError) can't convert Array into String
at org.jruby.RubyString.concat(org/jruby/RubyString.java:2601)
at RUBY.choose_audio(c:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/con
figuration_setup_utility/record_with_buttons_options_pane.rb:226)
at org.jruby.RubyProc.call(org/jruby/RubyProc.java:271)
at RUBY.after_checked(c:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/co
nfiguration_setup_utility/jruby-swing-helpers/lib/simple_gui_creator/swing_helpe
rs.rb:249)
at org.jruby.gen.InterfaceImpl1807703088.itemStateChanged(org/jruby/gen/
InterfaceImpl1807703088.gen:13)
"[\u2713:choose_audio_0] "Microphone (Sound Blaster Z) ""
now
"[\u2713:choose_audio_1] "virtual-audio-capturer ""
now
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: (Typ
eError) can't convert Array into String
at org.jruby.RubyString.concat(org/jruby/RubyString.java:2601)
at RUBY.choose_audio(c:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/con
figuration_setup_utility/record_with_buttons_options_pane.rb:226)
at org.jruby.RubyProc.call(org/jruby/RubyProc.java:271)
at RUBY.after_checked(c:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/co
nfiguration_setup_utility/jruby-swing-helpers/lib/simple_gui_creator/swing_helpe
rs.rb:249)
at org.jruby.gen.InterfaceImpl1807703088.itemStateChanged(org/jruby/gen/
InterfaceImpl1807703088.gen:13)
"[\u2713:choose_audio_0] "Microphone (Sound Blaster Z) ""
now
"[\u2713:choose_audio_1] "virtual-audio-capturer ""
now
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: (Typ
eError) can't convert Array into String
at org.jruby.RubyString.concat(org/jruby/RubyString.java:2601)
at RUBY.choose_audio(c:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/con
figuration_setup_utility/record_with_buttons_options_pane.rb:226)
at org.jruby.RubyProc.call(org/jruby/RubyProc.java:271)
at RUBY.after_checked(c:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/co
nfiguration_setup_utility/jruby-swing-helpers/lib/simple_gui_creator/swing_helpe
rs.rb:249)
at org.jruby.gen.InterfaceImpl1807703088.itemStateChanged(org/jruby/gen/
InterfaceImpl1807703088.gen:13)
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: (Typ
eError) can't convert Array into String
at org.jruby.RubyString.concat(org/jruby/RubyString.java:2601)
at RUBY.choose_audio(c:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/con
figuration_setup_utility/record_with_buttons_options_pane.rb:226)
at org.jruby.RubyProc.call(org/jruby/RubyProc.java:271)
at RUBY.after_checked(c:/Program Files (x86)/Screen Capturer Recorder/co
nfiguration_setup_utility/jruby-swing-helpers/lib/simple_gui_creator/swing_helpe
rs.rb:249)
at org.jruby.gen.InterfaceImpl1807703088.itemStateChanged(org/jruby/gen/
InterfaceImpl1807703088.gen:13)

I just updated to flash player 11.8.xx and now with default settings it crashes it.
help !!!

It would increase the usability greatly if the users could define keystrokes to start and stop the recording without activating the configuration tool window and by clicking on the buttons.

Heyas.

I recently attempted to record a video with this DirectShow capture filter using VLC 2.0.5. (Twoflower) The audio worked perfectly, however the video was captured in a stretched and twisted state, similar in appearance to a CRT monitor when you set the resolution too high. I have attached a still from the video that was recorded below:

The specifications for my system are:

Operating System
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
CPU
    Intel Core i5 2450M @ 2.50GHz
    Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
Motherboard
    Acer JM30_HR (CPU1)
Graphics
    Generic PnP Monitor (1366x768@60Hz)
    1024MB GeForce GT 540M (Acer Incorporated [ALI])

This is a laptop with dual video cards, one of them is an Intel embedded one, and the other is the NVidia card mentioned above. (Optimus)