Re: Screen Capture and Broadcast

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From: Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] (neil_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/02/04


Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 19:08:00 GMT

I can't think of any reason why you can't do this, although screen
capture is quite resource intensive on the processor. Make sure you
have lots of RAM and say a 800mhz+ processor and it should work out
fine.

However : Viewers may find the experience degraded because the media
player can resize the encoded screen capture, losing fine detail. If
this isn't going to be a problem (eg you embed the media player at a
fixed size in an IE window, and distribute on a CD) then there
shouldn't be any reason why not.

Using the wizard, set up a screen capture profile, then without
choosing 'start encoding when I'm done', go to the profile tab and
modify the (probably) 259kbps setting - click 'edit' and pick 30fps
and possibly 1-2second keyframe. It's possible you might want to nudge
the bitrate up from 250kpbs to say 350 if you experience any artefacts
in the produced video.

BTW - What problem were you encountering ?

Cheers - Neil.

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:13:06 -0800, "John Ryan"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I'm looking for some way to capture broadcast quality
>video from my screen (mouse movements and clicks) and then
>output that video into an editable format. Don't want a
>streaming format. Need the file to be 720x480 at 30fps. Is
>this possible with encoder?

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