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Windows 8
Hi,
I downloaded and installed your product on my Windows 8 laptop. It seemed to install OK, but had an error message that I sent earlier. Then when I tried to use it, it wouldn't record and several of the features didn't seem to work.
Is there any plan to make it compatible? Any idea when that might occur?
I downloaded and installed your product on my Windows 8 laptop. It seemed to install OK, but had an error message that I sent earlier. Then when I tried to use it, it wouldn't record and several of the features didn't seem to work.
Is there any plan to make it compatible? Any idea when that might occur?
Comments
Terry
When I start it now, it states the same error I got starting it before, "NOTE: CamStudio could not record the AVI file using the current compressor. Use default compressor? Yes No."
I've tried clicking Yes, repeatedly. The CamStudio box contracts like it got the message, and goes back to normal size, but the same error message returns each time until I click No.
I just went in and manually changed the Options | Video Options to Microsoft Video 1 and it seems to have recorded something. But I have no idea how to play it back or make it include audio or motion on the screen.
That message comes when you try to select a region that is not an even-numbered width AND height for an MPEG-4 based codec, usually. It is best to use the "Select" tool in the Fixed region choice and then correct the numbers to be both even and divisible by 2. Then you'll probably no longer experience that problem.
Some codecs are not as picky, MS Video One being one of those (neither is CamStudio Lossless, but you'll be constrained in how long a video you can make with either of those as they don't compress all that much.)
Terry
You're stuck with the usual recorders for Linux for now. (I've never gotten as flexible a result, and the ones that use ogg for audio really make the vids un-useable elsewhere.)
However, it is already 'officially' compatible with Windows 8 - as long as it works!
What problems are you having with Windows 8 currently?
Terry
Mess with the gain-staging to clean up the audio signal path. Pull down the speaker volume and push the Stereo Mix input to max. The speaker volume setting is what delivers the signal to the Stereo Mix inputs, and that slider is amplifying the signal, so keep it low, like around 20 or 30 maximum.
The waveout error comes from trying to use the "Record from Speakers" option, which stopped working on MOST machines several years ago. Stereo Mix is our only hope now for most of us.
Terry
I'll make a video next week where I go through and show all the Windows 8 settings I use.
Terry
Anywho, thanks for the video, it gives me a good idea of what I need to do to get things working.
Terry
You may need to boost the mic (from an "Advanced" button if there is one) to get better mic volume.
Terry