OT [MPlayer-users] Encoding screen captures

[Carl Karsten]

> We are currently in discussion about codecs and formats to use for an Open
> Source project where we want to provide training videos. These do only
> contain screen captures plus some audio.
> 
> The thing is that one of the guys in our discussion tells me that he
> compressed the files with the latest Windows Media encoder and got files of
> about 830kB (!) while all I get with mencoder and mpeg4 (libavcodec) is
> larger than 6MB.
> 
> How is this possible? I don't think that this is a gain of very good
> compression. There needs to be something more - probably a very good motion
> detection? If yes, can this also be done with mencoder?
> 
> Would be nice to get some hints. Thank you very much.

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~ScreenRecorders~SoftwareEng

I have used Camtasia.  Nice package.  I think it uses the fonts on the local player.


Carl K