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| [[Capture Fox]] || Zafer Gurel || 0.7.0 || 2009-11-25 || [[Windows]] || {{free|[[Mozilla Public License|MPL Version 1.1]]}} || {{Yes}}
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This is a comparison of notable screencasting software, used to record activities on the computer screen. This software is commonly used for desktop recording, gameplay recording and video editing. Screencasting software is typically limited to streaming and recording desktop activity alone, in contrast with a software vision mixer, which has the capacity to mix and switch the output between various input streams.

Comparison by specification

Product Name Publisher Latest stable version Latest release date OS Software license Open source
ActivePresenter Atomi Systems 3.7 2012-12-18 Windows Proprietary commercial No
ActivePresenter Free Edition Atomi Systems 3.7 2012-12-18 Windows Freeware No
Adobe Captivate Adobe Systems 6.0 2012-06-15 Windows
Mac OS X		 Proprietary commercial No
Bandicam Bandisoft 1.6.1.113 2011-03-16 Windows Proprietary commercial No
BB FlashBack Blueberry Software 4.0 2012-09-18 Windows Proprietary commercial No
BB FlashBack Express Blueberry Software 4.0 2012-09-18 Windows Freeware No
CamStudio CamStudio.org 2.7 r316 2013-02-15 Windows GPL Version 2 Yes
Camtasia Studio TechSmith 8.0.2 2012-07-24 Windows Proprietary commercial No
Camtasia for Mac TechSmith 2.2.0 2012-06-19 Mac OS X Proprietary commercial No
Capture Fox Zafer Gurel 0.7.0 2009-11-25 Windows MPL Version 1.1 Yes
FFmpeg FFmpeg.org 1.2 2013-03-15 Linux, [1] OS supporting X11, Windows LGPL Yes
Fraps Beepa Pty Ltd 3.5.9 2012-08-30 Windows Proprietary commercial No
Freeseer FOSSLC 2.5.3 2011-05-24 Windows
Mac OS X
Linux		 GPL v3 Yes
HyperCam Solveig Multimedia 3.3.1111.16 2011-11-16 Windows Proprietary commercial No
HyperCam Hyperionics 2.25.01 2011-05-29 Windows Freeware No
Jing TechSmith     Windows
Mac OS X		 Freeware No
Microsoft Expression Encoder Microsoft Corporation 4 2010-06-08 Windows Proprietary commercial No
Nero Vision Nero AG 10.6.10800 2011-04-19 Windows Proprietary commercial No
Pixetell Ontier Inc. 1.3.11913 2010-01-15 Windows Proprietary commercial No
QuickTime X Apple Inc. 10.0 (118) 2010-03-29 Mac OS X Part of Mac OS X No
RecordMyDesktop SourceForge 0.3.8.1 2008-12-13 Linux GPL Yes
Screencam SmartGuyz Inc. 3.3.0 2009-03-24 Windows Proprietary commercial No
ScreenFlow Telestream 3.0.2 2011-08-11 Mac OS X Proprietary commercial No
Screenpresso Learnpulse 1.3.7 2012-12-15 Windows Freeware No
Screenpresso Pro Learnpulse 1.2.6 2011-09-28 Windows Proprietary commercial No
Snagit TechSmith 11.0.1 2012-05-29 Windows Proprietary commercial No
Snagit TechSmith 2.1 2012-07-17 Mac OS X Proprietary commercial No
Snapz Pro X Ambrosia Software 2.2.3 2011-07-14 Mac OS X Proprietary commercial No
VirtualDub SourceForge 1.9.11 2012-12-27 Windows GPL Yes
VLC media player VideoLAN 2.0.3 2012-07-19 Cross-platform GPL Yes
Windows Media Encoder Microsoft Corporation 9.00.00.3352 (x86)
10.00.00.3809 (x64)		 2002 Windows Freeware No
Wink Satish Kumar 2.0 2008-07-14 Windows
Linux		 Freeware No
XVidCap SourceForge 1.1.7 2008-07-13 Unix-like GPL Yes

Comparison by features

The following table compares features of screencasting software. The table has seven fields, as follows:

  1. Name: Product's name; sometime includes edition if a certain edition is targeted
  2. Audio: Specifies whether the product supports recording audio commentary on the video
  3. Entire desktop: Specifies whether product supports recording the entire desktop
  4. OpenGL: Specifies whether the product supports recording from video games and software that employ OpenGL to render digital image
  5. DirectX: Specifies whether the product supports recording from video games or software that employ DirectX (particularly Direct 3D) to render digital image
  6. Editing: Specifies whether the product supports editing recorded video at least to some small extent, such as cropping, trimming or splitting
  7. Output: Specifies the file format in which the software save the final video (Non-video output types are omitted)
Product name Audio Entire
desktop 		OpenGL DirectX Editing Output
ActivePresenter Yes Yes No No Yes AVI, FLV, MP4, SWF, WebM, WMV[2]
ActivePresenter free edition Yes Yes No No Yes AVI, MP4, WebM, WMV[2]
Adobe Captivate Yes Yes ? ? Yes
Bandicam Yes Yes Yes Yes No
BB FlashBack Yes Yes ? ? Yes
BB FlashBack express Yes Yes ? ? No
CamStudio Yes Yes ? ? Yes AVI, SWF
Camtasia Studio Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Camtasia for Mac Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Capture Fox Yes Yes ? ? No Motion JPEG or Xvid in AVI
FFmpeg Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Any format you can think of. Flash Screenvideo (flashsv) is optimal for screencasts.
Fraps Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Freeseer Yes Yes ? ? No Ogg
HyperCam Yes Yes ? ? No AVI, WMV
Jing Yes Yes ? ? No SWF
Microsoft Expression Encoder Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Nero Vision Yes ? ? ? Yes
Pixetell Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
QuickTime X Yes Yes ? ? No
RecordMyDesktop Yes Yes ? — No Theora in Ogg
Screencam Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ScreenFlow Yes Yes Yes — Yes
Screenpresso Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Screenpresso pro Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Snagit Yes Yes Yes Yes No mp4
Snapz Pro X Yes Yes ? ? No
VirtualDub Yes ? ? ? Limited
VLC Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Many
Windows Media Encoder Yes Yes ? ? No
Wink Yes Yes ? No Yes SWF, PDF
XVidCap Yes ? ? — No

References

  1. ^ "Ubuntu Guide Screencasts". Ubuntu Guide website. Ubuntu Guide CC by nc sa. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Feature Comparison". ActivePresenter website. Atomi Systems. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
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