Posted by Jukka Aho on 10/24/06 10:09

G Hardy wrote:

> To be honest, I'd be surprised if anything can record good-quality
> screen captures of MPEG output, partly because (for perfomance) it's
> displayed in an overlay window, but mostly because the CPU is already
> busting a bollock decoding the MPEG

There are DVI and VGA capture devices which will record the signal
straight from the DVI or SVGA output connectors of a computer. They're
quite specialized and expensive, though:

<http://www.fi-llc.com/boards/Products/AccuStream170.php>
<http://www.unigraf.fi/index.php?page=64>
<http://www.pixelsmart.com/vga.html>
<http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals/4000/007-4663-00
2/pdf/007-4663-002.pdf>

"FRAPS" could also be used for some purposes - mainly for recording
games, but probably not for ordinary desktop applications:

<http://www.fraps.com/>

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znark

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