ScreenRecorder
Update 2015
Minimum OS: Windows 8
This ScreenRecoder is a single .EXE, no need to install a Mirror Driver.
It use the desktop duplication engine (new in win8) top fast capture the screen.
UltraVNC ScreenRecorder (2015)
Older version
There exist a lot of screen recorders, but all lack the speed for doing some full screen recording. The speed is just to low or cpu to high.
Online compression can only be done with some real-time disk eating codecs....
Even the 300$ cam... studio is slow.
As i needed something faster to make some manuals, i found it quite similar to the speed problem that VNC has.
I guess most screen recorders use the same vnc capturing method under the hood.
Integrating the mirror driver was a real speed boost, 1280x1024x15Fps + online divx compression
The screen recorder is build with the old Rendersoft camstudio source, we didn't wrote the whole thing ourself.
We just removed and added some code to make it faster.
The about box give the acknowledgment to the original creators.
Download
UltraVNC ScreenRecorder bin
UltraVNC ScreenRecorder Video Driver
(This driver is for Windows Server 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server2003)
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Source Code
UltraVNC ScreenRecorder Source
License
There was some discussion about the old RenderSoft License.
The website mentioned GPL, while the license.txt included in the source distribution was a BSD style license.
Non of the GPL requirements (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html) where fulfilled, so we will use the included written license.
RenderSoft CamStudio
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Unless otherwise specified, RenderSoft Software and Web Publishing owns all title to this software and its copyright,
which are protected by international copyright law.
This product is FREEWARE and you are free to duplicate and distribute this software through the internet or any preferred media.
This product is OPENSOURCED and you are free to edit and modify its source code for your needs.
The source code may be obtained from the product's website at: http://www.rendersoftware.com/products/camstudio
If you create an product that contains code derived from CamStudio, you are free to distribute it for any purposes, including commercial purposes.
However, your product must include an acknowledgment that mention it contains code from RenderSoft CamStudio.
A simple statement like "Part of this product is derived from RenderSoft CamStudio" in the About box will do.
You are not obliged to reveal the source code of your derived product but are encouraged to do so.
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Copyright (c) 2003, Rendersoft Camstudio
Copyright (c) 2007, uvnc
All rights reserved.
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