I did turn off the hardware acceleration and it still didn't work. There's a rider in the readme text that says Hypercam is not intended for video streams and that it may or may not work. They won't provide tech support in that area.

I can't believe with all the sophisticated technology out there that there is no way to save and archive a video stream. This is no doubt the future of television.

Stupid thought here, and my apologies if you've already tried this!

Have you tried right click and "Save Target As".

Of cousre that ain't going to work if its a real live stream.

TV out to another computer, VCR or Camcorder is the best way to go to avoid dropped frames & a quality hit, but if you insist on doing it on one machine, Camtasia is about the only other Screen Video Capture program that's can capture at a decent framerate. You can forget wasting you time trying to save it (unless of course the author allowed this function -- Very Rare.)

Camtasia used to be a cheapie shareware utility. It's now something like $370. With that price you're better off just buying TV out hardware.

Have a look at the freeware Camstudio at http://www.rendersoftware.com/products/camstudio/index.htm

Does pretty much everything the expensive ones do and costs nothing. I've never needed to do anything to do with screen capturing that it couldn't cope with.

Markwww,

Using the free Camtasia thing, have you been able to capture video on your screen with a decent framerate? I've tried it several times, fiddling with the settings, and its been dicey at best.

An example of what I want to do: do a screen capture of Vegas in action, complete with the preview window in lower right.

G

Well, if you're going to be running an application like Vegas and previewing a clip, you will have a very difficult time getting any decent frame-rate capture with Camtasia, or any other program for that matter.

This is primarily because Vegas is so CPU intensive and normally holds a high task priority. You MAY be able to slightly increase the frame-rate by lowering the priority of vegas and raising the priority of Camtasia via your task manager.

If you're talking about making a training or Demo type video, you most definately have to go TV out. Either by using a external scan converter or Internal TV out. $60-150.

The other way is to get hold of a camera with Clear Scan, probably not as good as a scan converter but you can pan around to show the person driving the thing as well.