From time to time it is convenient to be able to capture and record screen activities. I have searched through Google many times and tried many different tools and applications, but none of them has met my requirements; user friendly light open source application for fast high quality and resolution capturing and able to achieve high compression to ease distribution. So far the best screencasting application is CamStudio – an easy to use light weight capturing application. CamStudio is able to capture full screen resolution screencasts and encode directly into Xvid and DivX.
Screencast showing CamStudio in action. The screencast covers the basic features in CamStudio.
CamStudio is available for download here at Sourceforge.net
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