The free Satish Kumar. S "DebugMode Wink" - “A Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software”.
The OpenSource Google Code "zscreen" - “Advanced Image/Text/File utility that allows for region/window/full-screen screenshots, text services and file hosting”.
The OpenSource ShareXmod - Share anything without barriers - “Lets you take screenshots, save them in your clipboard, hard disk or upload them to over 20 different remote locations. It can capture screenshots with different shapes: rounded rectangle, ellipse, triangle, diamond, polygon and also free hand. It can also upload images, text files and all other different file types. It is able to capture screenshots with transparency and shadow. The program also supports drag n drop, clipboard upload and Windows Explorer integration”.
The free QASymphony "qtrace" - “The Screen Capture Software with Intelligence. A complete screen capture tool that helps a tester easily submits clear and accurate defect tickets”.
The free Google Hangout - Firefox plugin for Firefox running on WinXP, “Google voice and video chat”. It has an “On air” feature that causes Google+ Hangouts to record your Hangout session directly to YouTube. You can use the “Screenshare” feature inside Google+ Hangouts to easily record a tutorial session.
With a free Zoom account & installied ZOOM client, you may record a video including screen sharing . Though there are no online spectators, you need to be online for recording the video.
MSI Afterburner - “Predator Video Capture. Share your greatest moments! With Predator, you can record your best performance in games or overclocking without missing a single frame. The Predator software supports the H.264 codec, multiple file formats (.WMV, .AVI), size and quality to capture your match winning frag, beating the game on hard or breaking a record in overclocking”.
Codecs: uncompressed, MJPEG compression, NV12 compression, RV12 compression, VFWcompression ( not configured ). A “H.264 codec” is not shipped.
The Guru of 3D "Guru3D RTSS Rivatuner Statistics Server Download v6.6.0 Final/Stable" - “Uncompressed, high-performance custom RTV1 and native MJPG video encoding, encoding with third-party external VFW compatible codecs (e.g. Lagarith or x264vfw) and hardware accelerated H.264 encoding via Intel QuickSync, NVIDIA NVENC and AMD VCE are supported in conjunction with wide range of additional video capture related options, multisource stereo and multichannel (for Window Vista and newer) audio capture with Push-To-Talk support. The functionality of expensive commercial video capture products is now available to everyone absolutely for free! There is no need to buy dedicated video capture software anymore!”.
SourceForge "x264vfw", SourceForge "x264vfw" - “x264vfw is the VfW (Video for Windows) version of well known x264 encoder + ffh264 decoder (from FFmpeg/Libav project).”.
EN.Wikipedia "HyperCam" - “Like many freeware utilities, HyperCam 2 offers three “value-added extras” during the installation process, with the option to deselect each of the three. Unfortunately, if you deselect all three, you are faced with a response that you must at least install the 'Incredibar' toolbar, to continue and download Hypercam 2”.
The free Screencast-O-Matic for Windows with additional free online video publishing service - “Free online screen recorder for instant screen capture video sharing”. Maximum recording time: 15 min → Used by Coursera students, successfully.
The free EN.Wikipedia "Windows Media Encoder" - “enables content developers to convert or capture both live and prerecorded audio, video, and computer screen images to Windows Media formats for live and on-demand delivery”.
“HP Screen Recorder” for Windows with .NET, a plugin for the Windows edition of “Hewlett-Packard Quality Center Community Edition” → See Application Lifecycle Management ( ALM ).
“Game Recording Software and Windows Screen Recorder”, “Record your gameplay and upload it to YouTube and Vimeo”, “Record from any video devices like Webcam, IPTV, Smartphone, PS/Xbox”.
Limits of the Shareware version “Recording Time Limit = 10 minutes (per file)”, “Watermark”.
The commercial Adobe Captivate for Windows - “E-Learning-Software, Bildschirmaufzeichnung, Online-Schulungen und Tests”, “Für die rasche Entwicklung und Verwaltung multimedialer E-Learning-Inhalte. Importieren Sie Präsentationen aus Microsoft PowerPoint. Fügen Sie Multimedia, Applikationssimulationen, Szenarien mit Verzweigungen und Tests hinzu”. From user's point of view, the result can be described best as application simulation, not as screen recorder.
I was told by experts, that it is a free alternative to TechSmith “Camtasia” .
Configuration:
Sources.
1536×864 is the maximum capture resolution.
So if you play your application, e.g. a game, in a window - of 1920×1080 which fits the whole screen of a FullHD computer screen, to see the whole screen as online video, you must set
[x] Force Scaling.
Scale Resolution: 1280×720.
Output.
Video Bitrate: “2500” ( default ).
OBS accepts a maximum bitrate is 3500, for the streaming service “Twitch”.
With my DSL8000 connection, 500 is an acceptable value. By this, the OBS status bar at the bottom of the OBS window is kept in green state.
If you want to stream from OBS to online streaming services ( Zoom,..), due to quite new restrictions in 2020 / 2021 of these streaming services, it's best to configure OBS to be a “virtual cam” for these services.
Experts suggested in 2021-04 “Simply click the 'Start Virtual Camera' button in OBS”.
OBS can operate with unlimited number of video sources, e.g. WiFi & LAN webcams ( by HTTP address in a local network ).
Such a video source might be an Android smartphone, shipped with the Android App “DroidCam”. You might even use old Android smartphones with outdated Android OS versions ( i.e. < Android 7.02 ) or with broken screens .
A practical use of having many video sources is to implement “OBS Scenes” which can be switched by simple keypress, which use different number and size of video sources, e.g. one video source for document view ( Paper, Presentation ), one for the speaker, one for interactive sessions running computer software ( “llve hacking”,.. ).
“The Fastest Movie Capture. Dxtory is a movie capture tool for DirectX and OpenGL Applications. Since data is directly acquired from a surface memory buffer, it is very high-speed and works with small load”.
“Lossless Capture. The codec of Dxtory can record original pixel data as it is. You can obtain the highest quality by lossless video source”.
“A universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology”, “Screen Capture Software”, “Realtime Video Capture Software”.
Setup step #2 “Install Ad-Aware Web Companion”: Select:
”(x) Custom Installation (Advanced)”.
”[_] Install Ad-Aware Web Companionto block dangerous websites”.
”[_] Set search powered by Bing as my homepage, enw tab, and default search engine on Firefox and Internet Explorer”.
Setup step #3 “Install Opera Browser”: Select:
”(x) Custom Installation (Advanced)”.
”[_] Install Opera Browser”.
Setup step #4 “Install Nero TuneItUp”: Select:
”(x) I do not accept”.
Operation.
If you call DVDVideoSoft's “Free Skype Recorder”, Skype is loaded automatically if not already running.
You may setup the directory, where your recordings should be stored . The default place is “C:\Users\<user>\Videos” ( e.g. “C:\Users\Administrator\Videos” ).
DigitalTrends "How to record a Skype call on your PC or Mac" - “It truly has no serious limitations to speak of, and there are only two features I would like to see added: ... and some kind of notification reminding me whether I'm recording or not. Not everyone would remember to turn recording back on after a simple disconnection occurs—and these happen quite often on Skype”.
Giga.de "Skype: Aufnehmen von Telefonaten und Video-Chats" - ”(1) Mit Freiheitsstrafe bis zu drei Jahren oder mit Geldstrafe wird bestraft, wer unbefugt das nichtöffentlich gesprochene Wort eines anderen auf einen Tonträger aufnimmt oder eine so hergestellte Aufnahme gebraucht oder einem Dritten zugänglich macht”.
”[x] Bring iFree Skype Recorder to front when the conversion st” ( starts ).
”[x] Bring iFree Skype Recorder to front when recording finished”.
”[x] Bring history window to front when recording finished”.
Operation.
First call “iFree Skype Recorder”, then call “Skype” manually.
Recordings are stored at “C:\Users\<user>\Documents\iFree Skype Recorder” ( e.g. “C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\iFree Skype Recorder” ).
Audio-only connections ( e.g. to “Echo / Sound Test Service” ) are recorded in the MP3 audio format.
If you close the menu window of “iFree Skype Recorder” by clicking on the right top ”[x]” in the menu window, you may
Open the menu window, by clicking on the “iFree” icon in the Windows system tray.
Not open the menu window by clicking on the Windows Start menu entry of “iFree” or the Windows desktop icon of “iFree”. Before running the application by that successfully, you must either:
Quit the application by the menu command of the Windows system tray item “iFree”.
Kill the background process “iFree” manually ( or reboot Windows... ).
Scribie Blog "Skype Desktop API Disabled?" - “With the 6.22.0.107 Skype update however, it seems that some more APIs have been removed from Skype. We have received multiple bug reports that CallGraph has stopped working after this update” .
HD Video Call Recorder - “You may freely use the trial-version of HD Video Call Recorder for Skype and can record only up to 5 minutes for each video calls”.
“A better version of Callnote Premium is here! Record Skype, Google+ hangouts, Facebook and Viber video calls”, “Free Call Recorder Callnote Premium helps you easily record your conversations made via Skype, Facebook, Google+ Hangouts and Viber on your Mac or PC. Automatically capture and record audio and video, shared screen and chats”.