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"Error recoding AVI File using current compressor. Use Default Compressor?"
So I kept getting this error, no matter what I did. I tried using divx (with the height/weight parameters divisible by 4 and 2 as necessary - i even set the height and weight TO 4 and 2) and xvid (with height/weight divisible by 2) and to no avail. No matter what I would do, it would not work, and I spent soooo much time trying to figure it out. I tried every other codec and no matter what, no worky!
Thankfully I have an awesome coworker who finally figured it out.. It couldn't work because the folder that it was writing to.. I didn't have permission to write to. Such a simple fix >.< changed destination folder to something else, and viola, it worked!
I just wanted to post that here because i spent, literally, hours making it work, and I wanted to save someone else the frustration - just in case anyone else was having the same issue.
Thankfully I have an awesome coworker who finally figured it out.. It couldn't work because the folder that it was writing to.. I didn't have permission to write to. Such a simple fix >.< changed destination folder to something else, and viola, it worked!
I just wanted to post that here because i spent, literally, hours making it work, and I wanted to save someone else the frustration - just in case anyone else was having the same issue.
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Glad you found your way clear!
Terry
I still cannot get CamStudio to use compression consistently. While I have the latest DIVX codec installed, it does not show up in the available codecs list. I can only use the codecs which don't use compression. But given that a PCM wave file (which is what they use for audio) has a size limit of just over 2GB, this means there is a file size limit on the final video. (I've tried using audio compression - LAME, etc - but it ignores it and uses PCM instead). Meaning the video can only be relatively short, which renders CamStudio useless if you want to make longer videos. I've found that a 5min video is 32GB which is just stupid. I will not use CamStudio again until I figure out how to make it use compression, or if it gets improved in later versions.
Where are you putting your custom directory? I have mine in My Videos and have no issues.
To select a region of a known size, use the "Fixed Region" choice, and the "Select" button will allow you to use your mouse cursor to select a section of your screen. Then, adjust the numbers manually to be even numbers.
That "default compression" is Microsoft Video One - awful stuff, really.
DivX may be the cause of all of your problems. It did not work at all for months and months last year - totally froze CamStudio and recorded only a single frame. Use Xvid instead - superior according to the doom9 forums folks.
Check "Use MCI to record" and compress later on to preserve good audio/video sync, and refer to my video and articles listed in the sticky post above for best settings.
I record 3-hour videos with Xvid set at its highest quality setting of 1, using MCI to record at 1280X720. Is that long enough to satisfy you? That's keeping under the 2GB file size maximum that the AVI-1 container we are still using limits us to. I then compress the audio even further in post using Any Video Converter converting to MP4 using the AC3 audio codec (mp3 sucks for MP4 conversions and often throws the sync off.)
Patience. I appreciate your frustration that things don't just work "out of the box", but CamStudio has many settings, and that flexibility is actually one of its strengths.
Terry
Terry
It has nothing to do with file permissions, because I successfully recorded in Full Screen mode and the program was able to create it's files.
Initially I didn't change any settings, but, as it didn't worked, I set Video Options compressor to be XviD MPEG-4 Codec. It didn' help - same error.
Then I changed compressor to be x264 - H264/AVC encoder. After try to record in Window mode the program crashed with a standard Windows error message.
This problem oscillates between versions into either the fixed region or window region as well. 2.6b it is in the window, so I have to set Sizer http://www.brianapps.net/sizer/ to a pixel smaller when auto-sizing my windows. In 2.6c, it is the fixed region that requires I subtract a pixel, and my window regions work correctly without the pixel fiddling in Sizer. So in other words... what a pain!
Terry