Is there anyway to record your computer screen?

I would like to find out if there is anyway to record what you are doing on your computer screen? Specifically, there is a foreign TV show that I want to watch by streaming it online. However, I also would like to find out if I can record it. The TV show will be streaming through Realplayer One. Thanks for any help!

 

There are quite a few programs that allow you to record your screen or an area of your screen. A certain program, Hypercam, works fairly well; I don't remember the website, but Google should turn it up easily enough. You can set a specific area of your screen and record it to various file types. Plenty of other programs that do the same thing are available, also.

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I moved this thread to software.
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There was a really good program called Camstasia or Camtasia .. Search around for it, i remmember it being outstanding.

 

yes, Camtasia Studio. Its a great program and I use it quite often. It is made by the company techSmith.My brother in law uses it for making computer training clips for his job.

There is also another program from the same company called Snag It. That allows you to copy the screen and selective windows as well for saving or priniting. Its great for webpages.

 

i have been trying the Bulent's Screen Recorder for around a week, but for some reason, the AVI files it recorded get distorted when palyed back thought it was a codec problem so tried out different divx codec. but now i am thinking may b it's the freeware program i am using.

there are some great names have already mentioned above. gonna try them out. thanks

 

Wow, this thread is a lot older than it looks!
Anyway, capturing data streaming into RealPlayer from a RealMedia Server is very difficult! The best way I have found is still a very bad way of doing it, and its not easy to do. Get MPlayer, and then just ues MPlayer to do a byte-by-byte Stream Dump to a file.. And then rename the file with a .rm extention. The problem though unless you begin precisely when the server first starts streaming information (impossible really) you're going to have corrupt search frame information. You'll need a 3rd party program to reindex the stream so that you can search it.. But even then, usually the first 5-10 seconds are completely unrecoverable.. And you pretty much have to live with it.. If try to trim off the first 5-10 seconds, then it will be the NEXT 5-10 seconds that are completely unrecoverable.

The problem is that the RealPlayer protocol/codec is locked and properitary. Really, this means that they don't want you downloading content streaming from the servers without paying big $$$ for the professional version of Real Player. It can be done, but the result is rarely satisfactory.

I have been able to record streaming audio very easily. Just use any software that can record audio from a microphone, and then instead of a microphone, set the input audio to the "What-You-Hear" device (If you have a SBLive Sound card.)

Audio + Video though it is darn near impossible to get right.
I have a bunch of stream dumps, but even though I've sent them through every RealMedia Format repair software known to man, I still have a lot of problem trying to get them to play right (the video will start, the audio will screech, and then the video will play without audio.. I have to hit "Pause" and then "Play"...Then it says.. "Seeking..." for a few seconds, and then it plays properly (unless its at the beginning 5-10 seconds which is fubar no matter what you do).

 

I plug the Video Out from the laptop into my capture card, and record to the laptop's hard drive.