What's a good program to record video or screencast being played on screen? [closed]

Question

What's a good program to record videos or screencasts being played on screen?

Answer 1

I've had success with Camtasia / CamStudio. Check out http://showmedo.com for tutorials. It's a little recursive though - it would be better to capture it from source.

Answer 2

On Windows, you have CamTasia (commercial), CamStudio (GPL), FRAPS (commercial with free trial).

FRAPS will definitely do your job, it was designed to capture videos of 3D games. CamTasia might, it has a low-level custom codec (TechSmith Capture Codec). CamStudio probably won't, at least not smoothly. CamStudio has issues on Vista, I don't know about FRAPS, CamTasia is fine on Vista.

On the Mac try ScreenFlow, their example video makes it clear it can capture live video streams.

On Linux you'll be in a bit of trouble. If you recompile ffmpeg you might get it recording video. I think recordmydesktop won't do the job.