Dual monitor support has been added and will be available in the next release (not date yet). If you would like to experimet with the DEVELOPMENT release you can visit (http://www.bleeblap.com/CamStudio/weeklybuilds.php) and follow the instructions.
Let me know how the dual-monitor features work for you. Its relatively new and I've only done testing on my machine. Thanks!
CamStudio addresses two functions: Capturing streamed media whose publishers have attempted to make them uncapturable, and capturing source materials for video tutorials. Broken "Record Audio from Speakers" looses half of your target users. You really need to get that back. Most of my ideas address capturing tutorial source materials.
Most of the videos out on the Net are pretty lousy, mostly because they're direct recordings with no post-editing. I'm not suggesting adding a full editor, just more support for separate post-editing. Specifically, I'd like an option to simultaneously record 3 separate videos: the screen, the WebCam, and the mouse (location, highlight and clicks). The speaker audio would go with the screen, and the microphone with the webcam. Bringing those separately into a full video editor would let me weave together whichever parts I need, for example only including the mouse highlight part of the time, or switching back and forth between the screen and webcam.
Been messing with CamStudio the past few days and thought up some good ideas.
* In the "Automatically Stop Recording" setting, have an option to have CamStudio stop recording once the file being recorded reaches 1.9 GiB in size and have this option enabled by default. This option would also need to send a pop-up message / sound alert to the user to let them know the recording stopped due to the AVI size limit being reached. Once CamStudio finished encoding \ muxing \ saving the AVI, have a second pop-up message with a "Yes \ No" input asking the user if they would like to start recording again. If they click yes, CamStudio starts recording using the same settings they were using before it stopped.
* Have Auto Adjust enabled by default with a new second checkbox (also enabled by default) below the slider bar that would lock the video framerate settings to factors of 1000. Have a warning next to the second checkbox that by disabling it, the audio and video may become unsynchronized and another warning saying something like the lower the "capture frame every" value is, the greater the CPU and filesize requirements become.
* Have a similar lock for the region settings that limits the height and width values to multiples of 4, with a drop down list to change to other multiple limits instead of 4 (eg: 2/8/16/32/etc). Have a toggle switch or check box to disable the lock, but have a warning next to the switch that lets the user know that some video codecs won't work properly with resolution settings that aren't multiples of 4 and many won't work if the values aren't at least a multiple of 2.
* Add a keyboard shortcut option that would allow enabling / disabling autopan with some type of on-screen message/icon that let the user know if it had been enabled or disabled.
The first 3 would likely take care of ~90% or more of the support requests.
I love camstudio but I have one improvement that I would like to see.
I love the auto pan and how it functions except how choppy it follows the mouse. Is there any way that you can make it follow the mouse smoother?
Another Idea related with the auto pan feature is if you could choose how close to the edge of the auto pan box for it to follow or something along that line. Also maybe the closer the mouse gets to the outside of the box, after the initial moving point chosen, the faster it would move that way the mouse doesn't go out of the box, if you were to move it faster than the box can move.