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  • 28-03-2000 5:33pm
    #1
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I need a vid card that can capture to an avi/mpeg/whatever file as it pumps the video to the screen.
    so, whatever is going on on the screen also gets captured to the harddisk.

    Is there a vid card that can do this or a bit of software?

    Tom.



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  • #2
    Fing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭Fing


    Dev, check out a prog call SnagIt at http://www.snagit.com/

    It captures screenshots as well as 'whats going on on the screen' to avi's AFAI remember. Such a facility is unheard of as a
    feature of a VGA card (Go on, someone prove me wrong =P

    BTW, There is also a prog called Camtasia at the above link that seems to do a more professional avi screen capture...

    Fing

    [This message has been edited by Fing (edited 28-03-2000).]


  • #3
    amp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    hmmm might be a prob if you wanna capture stuff that's coming from the 3d end of things.

    Like yer voodoo3/tnt2's switch over to the 3d proccessor when you go into Q3/UT/DVD's and bypass's the windows gui and possibly proggies like camtasia and that free thing Microsoft released (MS Camcorder I think).

    If I'm right about the above then you could do it with two PC's. PC1 would be the output pc. PC2 the input PC. PC1 would need a tv out on the g/card (most do these days) and PC2 would have a tv in connector (the v3 3500 has this)

    Then this would happen:

    PC1 - signal outputted to tv out connector -> PC2 - recieved through tv in connector - recorded as if it was a tv signal.

    Digital -> Analog -> Digital.

    PC2 would have to be a bloody fast piece of h/w to encode so much data though.

    However if you just want to video a mouse moving round a windows screen then ignore the above and comment of my lack of a life wink.gif

    amp - who fixed an IBM PS/1 today
    Lunacy Abounds! Play GLminesweeper!


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