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LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - Easy Screencast Recorder - v1.17.01 - May 31, 2017

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TAF2000:
Ah HA!

The trouble seemed to be that I was having it save the files into a sub-folder of my screen shots and it won't play them from there. I don't know if it is recording sound or not, but I have it on default, so I think it is recording stereo mix.

I have both the SC and the ESR starting with the startup of my computer, so that I can run them right from hotkeys at any moment that I need them.  So the preferred method I am looking for, I think, would be to figure out how to open the SC from the "With last recorded video do..." and display the video that just recorded. I am not familiar with what commands would be required for this, Would it be possible?

TAF2000:
Oh no.  that doesn't seem to be it.

First trouble is that "With last recorded video do..." doesn't happen automatically after the video is finished recording, I thought it might.  And second trouble is that the SC is already running in the system tray, so it pops an alert instead of opening.  Not sure there would be any way around these issues without making it an option in the ESR program itself that would cause it to open SC and find the file automatically after each video is recorded.

Would it be worth the trouble to add that as an option to the ESR program "Options and Preferences"?

No worries if so... I think I am already getting the hang of finding the file manually in SC, and I now noticed that the ESR preview window has a nice little drop down list of recent files under "file".

Vurbal:
I decided to try this program out as a more barebones alternative to CamStudio. I actually do a lot of screencasting but I don't need anything special like annotations. I am, however intrigued by some of the options in this program and after skimming through this thread I think I could help out if you're still working on it. I have a lot of experience with video encoding, a decent familiarity with the ffmpeg command line and AviSynth has been my go to video editing tool for close to a decade now.

Since I'm in the middle of a wipe and clean install of my system drive I'll have to wait to try the program out, but I already have a couple questions and comments so I figured I'd get a head start here. I guess the first thing would be just to say I'm a big fan of your software already. After more than a year of playing around with LaunchBar Commander off and on I'm making it the center piece of some articles for the website I work for (AfterDawn.com btw) which will also include some videos for our YouTube channel. You can expect a donation from me on the strength of Screenshot Captor alone once I have a few bucks to spare.

But back to Easy Screencast Recorder, one of the things that caught my attention was the option to create MKV files but I'm not quite clear on what I need to have installed for that. It says the "MKV codec" is required but since Matroska is a container and not a compression standard there's no such thing. What it does need is a MKV muxer. I'm guessing you're using DirectShow and I'm guessing (or hoping at least) this uses the Dshow muxer from MPC-HC. If there's more information in the help manual feel free to just tell me to RTFM. My computer doesn't want to open CHM files right now (I did say I was reinstalling Windows) so I can't check for myself right now.

On the subject of codecs, though, for anyone encoding normal screen activity (ie standard low motion computer use) I would highly recommend the CamStudio Lossless codec. For ultra low motion video it's more efficient than any other realtime codec by a couple orders of magnitude. For anything else it's pretty much worthless since it drops frames left and right.

Also, if you're still thinking about some way to incorporate AviSynth functionality you don't necessarily need to have it installed. You should be able to do everything you need by just linking to avisynth.dll. I wouldn't want to guess how much work that might be since I'm not a programmer but you should be able to get any answers you need at the Doom9 forums.

mouser:
Vurbal, welcome to the site!

And thank you for such a great post.

I have a lot of experience with video encoding, a decent familiarity with the ffmpeg command line and AviSynth has been my go to video editing tool for close to a decade now.
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This would actually be of great help, because i have 0 experience with codecs and avisynth, and what i would really love is to understand some common profiles that i could offer the user so that ESR could easily convert to file formats that would be easy for people to upload to youtube, etc.

I have a couple of other projects to work on but i'd love to revisit ESR and get the program to a state where it can really live up to it's name.  Right now the program would probably be more accurately called "Half-easy, Half-painfully-difficult screencast recorder"..

After more than a year of playing around with LaunchBar Commander off and on I'm making it the center piece of some articles for the website I work for (AfterDawn.com btw) which will also include some videos for our YouTube channel.
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Awesome  :Thmbsup:

Afterdawn: very cool!!

Vurbal:
I could have sworn I already replied to this. Must have gotten distracted and forgotten to hit the Post button  :-[

Here's the easy answer to encoding screencasts for uploading. It's probably also incomplete because I've only tried it with YouTube. I encode all my video to H.264 using x264 in lossless mode because it's insanely efficient. The same caveat applies here as using CamStudio Lossless for capture - for anything but low motion screencap all bets are off. To give you an idea just how efficient it is I compress the 16/48 stereo audio with Flac and it still amounts to almost the entire size of the final MKV file.

You might be able to use the same video format for most video sites but I have no idea how prevalent Flac support is. I'd be willing to bet MKV support is rare beyond YouTube but MP4 should be pretty much universal.

I'm actually glad it will be a while before you get back to this. After years of procrastination I've decided I need learn some actual programming skills for various projects I want to pursue so I'm giving myself a crash course in Python. One of those projects happens to be an alternate version of AviSynth called Vapoursynth which uses Python instead of native AVS scripts.

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