Video capture software

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I want to start doing Let's Plays of older DOS games in my free time. Basically, this involves playing the game (duh) then recording the gameplay as well as commentary while you play. Now this shouldn't be too difficult, except that this will generally involve large video being uploaded to Youtube.

So that's the problem. On a 1mb line, uploading to Youtube would take forever. Does anyone know of a faster way to do it or perhaps some kind of online software that captures the video directly online without me having to upload it myself or something?

Sorry if that sounds dumb, but I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to things like this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
 
Have you tried using Jing? It is a good screen capturing software for photos and videos.
 
The amount of data in your stream would be the problem,whether you store it first or upload direct (were it possible not withstanding)
You're better off recording,compressing and editing offline then uploading in a more efficient format ;)
 
I investigated this a while back. There are a few options but by far the best in my opinion is to use FRAPS which records HUGE files and then process the files to make them smaller.

The problem is that after processing you are still stuck with a relatively large file so I would recommend something like uploading overnight. You don't want to encode the large file to be so small that it's bad quality because then nobody will watch it.

If you want something free to record with then you can try CamStudio, not the greatest but it's free: http://camstudio.org/

I would recommend recording in full quality and then editing and compressing afterwards. For the editing as a free option you can use Windows Movie Maker.

As for the audio, I would use the screen capture software to record the ingame audio and then run Audacity alongside it to record yourself.
 
Camstudio is the best paid app.You can try the "Action" from Mirilis and also Fraps is good.
 
A 1Mbps ADSL line's upload speed is the same as a 4Mbps ADSL line.

I'm with PsyWulf on this one, that you should first do all the recordings (eg. using FRAPS + Audacity), then resize and compress the video into a smaller size and only then upload it.

When you use FRAPS to record in a lossless format (which I'd recommend), then you WILL have to compress that video into a lossy format (such as x264 codec) to reduce the size considerably. Like you can easily get 2GB of RAW data down to only a few MB!

I used MeGUI to convert my videos into x264 format when I made CS1.6 videos. Compression could take a while too, especially if you don't have like a quad/hex/octa-core CPU (eg. i5 3470/i7 3770/AMD FX 8350)!

I've always used Adobe Premiere Pro to link the audio & video streams for my videos, but unfortunately it is quite expensive. You can however get the old CS2 version for free, by simply registering an account: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?pid=4485850&e=cs2_downloads
Other people like Sony Vegas Pro. There are quite a few free video editors available too: http://www.ezvid.com/top_5_free_video_editing_software_for_windows
 
I also remeber hearing that MSI afterburner allows you to record as well.
 
I use Fraps and Vegas Pro... I think you can set Fraps to record at 30 frames which helps with the size of the files.

Be sure to get the full version of Fraps... I think the official free version only allows 30s records.
 
aTubecatcher is a very cool program, use it for this purpose,file sizes are relatively small, also you dont have to play the game in full screen just like the size/ or double a gameboy screen.
 
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