STOIK Capturer V1.1

Stoik Capturer captures video from your DV camcorder directly to AVI or WMV. It is able to split capture file automatically by size. You can also output DV AVI to your DV camcorder with the help of this program.




Writes settings to: User profile folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract to a temporary folder. Install the MSI file in the archive to the default folder. Copy all files to a folder of your choice. Finally, uninstall the program. Launch StoikCap.exe.

Stealth: No

License: Free for personal use

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

WinDV V1.2.3

WinDV is a small utility for capturing videos from DV device (camcorder) into AVI-files and for recording AVI-files into DV device via FireWire (IEEE 1394) interface. Capturing is very reliable thanks to use of large buffer queue. Timestamps recorded on DV tape by camcorder can be used to automatically split captured video into multiple files. During transmitting to DV, several AVI-files can be joined together to form final video recording.




Writes settings to: Windows registry

How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WinDV.exe.

Stealth: No

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Taksi V0.7.6

Taksi is a video/screen capture tool for 3D applications. It can capture from almost any DirectX, OpenGL or GDI window and capture an AVI video of the contents. Although it can use codecs to compress the results, this is not recommended as it causes more slowdown to an already taxing process. However, this also causes the resulting AVI to take up much more space, so it's a trade-off either way. Also, this application is still in development and some features are not yet implemented (such as recording audio).




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice (using the "MSI Administrative Installation" method). Delete the .msi file (name varies depending on version eg. taksi-0.7.6.msi) and TaksiLogo.jpg. LaunchTaksi.exe.

I also recommend turning video compression off for the best possible performance. Click on "Config", then the "Format" tab, then the "Video Codecs" button. Select "Full Frames (Uncompressed)" from the drop-down dialog, then click "OK". The program will warn you that this uses up a very large amount of diskspace: click "OK" and then Save).

License: Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

Cam FTP V1.3

CamFTP takes regular snapshots from your webcam and uploads them to an FTP server of your choice. It supports JPEG compression to reduce snapshot file size. The snapshots can be labeled with a timestamp or some other user-defined text. There is also a surveillance mode which can be configured to perform an action (eg. play a sound, send email) when something changes in front of the webcam.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch camftp.exe.

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP

Cam Studio V2.0

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create AVI video files, then convert them into streaming Flash video files (SWF) using its built-in SWF Producer. It also supports anti-aliased screen captions as well as audio and video annotations.




Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the installer and install to the default folder. Copy all files (except uninstall.exe and uninstall.ini) to a folder of your choice, then uninstall the program. Launch Recorder.exe.

Unicode support: No

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: WinNT / Win2K / WinXP