I need a Desktop Recorder

[ethaninja]

I only just noticed a new discussion forum section

Anyway, I'm pretty confident I'm in the right section for this so I'll just go for broke:

What I Need
I need to record something that is happening on my screen. However, I need to record whatever audio is being played. Now, the thing I'm recording is not going to be in an application so Fraps is useless.

I tried Hypercam and CamStudio but no luck. They can record sound being inputed through a mic, but not what is playing directly.

If anybody knows of any that is either free (or relatively cheep) can you please let me know?
It's kind of urgent as I need it before 9AM tomorrow (Australia time)

-Cheers

 

[manaman]

Did you try CamStudio? It's not great for recording games and the like, but it's free so you might as well give it a shot.

I tried Hypercam and CamStudio but no luck. They can record sound being inputed through a mic, but not what is playing directly.

I don't know how I missed that you did try CamStuido. However you're wrong that it only records through the mic. You can tell it to record audio from the speakers or from the mic in the options.

 

[Swaki]

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/desktop_recorder_software/

the first one seems to fill all of your criterias and still being pretty cheap at 25$ and with a demo available.

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

I think ManyCam is free and does the trick. Check it out.

 

[Oddgo]

AutoScreenRecorder 3.0 if you need the actual application software.
Otherwise go here: http://screenr.com/
You'll need a Twitter account I think.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

FRAPS is the only thing I've tried, but there's a problem with my sound card that you may have, if you couldn't get Hypercam or CamStudio to record your audio.

You need to have audio set to "Stereo Mix", and some PC (I think Dells mainly) don't have one, so you may need to do a bit of switching.

 

[Roster]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screencasting_software
That makes sence...

Personally I use Fraps for recording let's play videos, and use DemoCreator to record software tutorial off my desktop.