Here’s my test of audio/video screen capture using Camstudio, in which I use Google to find Waldo.
This was done on a Windows XP machine running Camstudio 2.0. The audio was recorded using a Logitech Desktop Microphone. The final video uses the Intel Indeo Video 4.5 codec.
The AVI video full-screen, 1.05 minutes long and 7.46 MB in size.
Observations: The video recorded well and plays back fine in Windows Media Player. Embedding it on a webpage using PowerPress (the video below) was more problematic. IE 6 will play the video because it recognizes the AVI file type. Firefox 3 will not.
The video looks good and the sound quality is fine. The inability to play AVI files in Firefox and Safari is problematic; while we could convert AVIs to another format, it’s better if we don’t have to.
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