What is it?
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer
and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in
SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly
Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Here are just a few ways you can use this software:
- You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
- Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most
frequently asked questions? - You can create video tutorials for school or college class
- You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer
so you can show technical support people - You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
- You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover
on your favourite software program, before you forget them
CamStudio was originally released by a company called RenderSoft who
were subsequently bought by a company called eHelp who used some of the
technology in their program, RoboDemo ...
Some time later, eHelp was bought by Macromedia who wanted RoboDemo
(which was to become Captivate) ...
Knowing that CamStudio did some of the stuff RoboDemo did for free (mainly
export to streaming Flash), it looks like they released a newer version
of CamStudio (2.1) which fixed some bugs but most importantly, removed
certain features, mainly the ability to create SWFs and you were required
to register to use it and over time, links to the various
webpages that had CamStudio and its source code were became broken.
In short: Version2.0 is free open source software(FOSS) and it has more features.
Useful Links
Lossless Codec: http://www.camstudio.org/CamStudioCodec10.zip
Source: http://camstudio.org
