CamStudio user Jard Y Dooku (otherwise known as Jake) sent me an email the other day saying he’d fixed the bug with the lossless codec that made the black bar appear when the width wasn’t divisible by 4.
So all being well you shouldn’t see the black bar appear on the screen any more.
It’s available to download from here:
CamStudio 1.4 Codec <- Sourceforge link
CamStudio 1.4 Codec <- CamStudio.org mirror
(added after problems with SF, thanks to Jack for letting me know!)
There’s no EXE installer for it yet so You’ll need to extract the contents from the zipfile to a folder, right click the INF file and select Install from the context menu.
UPDATE: Thanks to CamStudio user, Scott White, there’s now an installer for CamStudio Codec v1.4.
Here’s the download link:
CamStudio 1.4 Codec - EXE Installer
More cool stuff coming soon.
Cheers
Nick 
8 responses so far ↓
1 AJMB // Oct 7, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I happen to need this software today and there ’s an update.
Its nice to stumble upon a project that’s still active.
2 DragonQ // Oct 8, 2008 at 1:51 pm
What has changed between this and CamStudio Lossless Codec 1.0 apart from the “black bar” bug fix? I can’t imagine it’s jumped 0.4 version numbers after one bug fix ;). Also, will it be long before an EXE installer appears?
3 Nick // Oct 9, 2008 at 8:20 am
@DragonQ
Apparently, in the source code for the codec, it was tagged as V1.3 and not V1.0, so after doing the fix, the codec has been assigned the correct version number.
Hope that answers your question.
@AJMB - you’re very welcome.
4 Manuel Möller’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Creating Screencasts with Windows XP // Oct 14, 2008 at 1:15 pm
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5 jaywjayw // Oct 24, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Eh? For some reason, the codec doesn’t work on me computer. It copies to the folders fine, and seems to install fine, but Camstudio doesn’t recognize it. I tried installing MSU to see if it was the same, but that worked.
Help? :]
6 jck // Nov 4, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I installed the new codec, but it crash if I try to compress with zip algorithm. It works fine with LZW.
7 frankshen // Nov 24, 2008 at 7:28 am
I’ve tried it OK on WinVista. For some reason, I reinstall the WinXP and then I meet the same problem with jaywjayw.
Could you please help? Thanks!
8 geodav // Jan 3, 2009 at 9:54 pm
tried the new codex on winvista, records fine but no playback, win media player and virtual dub don’t recognize it at all !!!!
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