So.. you created a capture program?
How accurate could a screen capture code ever be?
How accurate could a screen capture code ever be?
Interesting question isn´t???? a question that probably coders and non-coders are looking for an answer, just like any other Person/user/coder in this freaky world i´ve asked myself that question in the last time and therefore i was looking for answers... the results??? well all i can tell is that is just a dissaster!
after doing some research and downloading a couple of crappy apps i came to the conclution that only two software available out there are usable when it comes to screen capture in Windows and that´s no other than Camtasia and hypercam... sadly both apps dissapointed me as they do not recorded the screen as i spected or at all and not to mention that recording from the speakers didn´t work either in both apps but only mic which is annoying. another option is Fraps but it just records fullscreen windows while they are running not to mention the insane amount of space a single raw record requires on your poor HDD... so after such a dissapointment i ask myself again "Could a screen capture code be ever accurate enough to be usable???" taking in mind that the mentioned apps are created by big teams and awesome tools the answer could be "No, its not possible" which was the first logical answer that came to my mind..
as many of you probably know am the kind of coder that doesn´t accept by any means the sentence "No, its not possible" as it pretty gets on my nerves... so after i came to the conclution that it "May not be possible" i started to think how could i change that... the other day while i was watching my daugther play besides our TV i think i understood how our eyes capture images and send them to our brain so we can see something move or different colors etc. our eyes concentrate in the object moving while it ignores the rest somehow so it focus the main work into the area that we are looking at. i noticed that because my daugther was playing around and on our TV a small fly was flying around and i couldn´t get both my daugther and the fly at the sametime in the same focus...even knowing that isn´t gonna be a easy task i took all that info and started the work and opened my freaky Visual Studio. at the beginning i thought i will never get it but after thinking on my now already old file loading algorithm results which was able to load 258GB of audio information and scan 54000 files in less than 20 seconds i thought i should at least try
the results????? well is not optimized as it should but i´ve created probably the most accurate screen capture to my knowledge and without big performance penalties :evil: :evil: :evil:
The original size of the video is 1392x928.
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if you know any other screen capture app that you consider accurate please share it with me as its going to help me with the development of my classes and tests.
Regards
@ruantec
Interesting question isn´t???? a question that probably coders and non-coders are looking for an answer, just like any other Person/user/coder in this freaky world i´ve asked myself that question in the last time and therefore i was looking for answers... the results??? well all i can tell is that is just a dissaster!
after doing some research and downloading a couple of crappy apps i came to the conclution that only two software available out there are usable when it comes to screen capture in Windows and that´s no other than Camtasia and hypercam... sadly both apps dissapointed me as they do not recorded the screen as i spected or at all and not to mention that recording from the speakers didn´t work either in both apps but only mic which is annoying. another option is Fraps but it just records fullscreen windows while they are running not to mention the insane amount of space a single raw record requires on your poor HDD... so after such a dissapointment i ask myself again "Could a screen capture code be ever accurate enough to be usable???" taking in mind that the mentioned apps are created by big teams and awesome tools the answer could be "No, its not possible" which was the first logical answer that came to my mind..
as many of you probably know am the kind of coder that doesn´t accept by any means the sentence "No, its not possible" as it pretty gets on my nerves... so after i came to the conclution that it "May not be possible" i started to think how could i change that... the other day while i was watching my daugther play besides our TV i think i understood how our eyes capture images and send them to our brain so we can see something move or different colors etc. our eyes concentrate in the object moving while it ignores the rest somehow so it focus the main work into the area that we are looking at. i noticed that because my daugther was playing around and on our TV a small fly was flying around and i couldn´t get both my daugther and the fly at the sametime in the same focus...even knowing that isn´t gonna be a easy task i took all that info and started the work and opened my freaky Visual Studio. at the beginning i thought i will never get it but after thinking on my now already old file loading algorithm results which was able to load 258GB of audio information and scan 54000 files in less than 20 seconds i thought i should at least try
the results????? well is not optimized as it should but i´ve created probably the most accurate screen capture to my knowledge and without big performance penalties :evil: :evil: :evil:
The original size of the video is 1392x928.
if you know any other screen capture app that you consider accurate please share it with me as its going to help me with the development of my classes and tests.
Regards
@ruantec
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Classes written in C# that uses @ES graphics engine to capture the screen as shown in the video
atm @ES owns those classes but am still thinking if i should create a separate program using @ES core + classes.btw:
in the video of the main post @ES is handling image processing of the coverflow, playing a song, handling some internal code execution and at the same time capturing the screen in a video and catupring the audio comming from my speakers... as you can see it doesn´t take much resources at all that could affect the performance of Dolphin which is emulating Super Mario Sunshine at the sametime :thumb:
Thank you :thumb:
i´ve been thinking to create an stand-alone app using @ES core and the capturing classes and sell it to make some cash... who knows maybe one day you´re going to see one of my apps at your local store
am a weird coder and weird things brings me to the right direction.. as i mentioned in other posts the algorithm i created that is able to load informations of 258GB of pure audio in 20 seconds was created because one day in the morning while eating some cheese balls i got that idea and i used the cheese balls later to simulate the flow.. the eye focusing gave me an idea how to improve performance and it indeed work... probably is the weird way i have to accomplish my stuff or probably the way i think dunno.. one thing i know for sure.. most of the times weird things that are clear for me aren´t clear for others and sadly i rarely find the right words to explain them... not to mention how bad my english is lol.
that´s pretty awesome!!! i think am going to try it out but first i need XP installed on my lappy
at least someone that got the point :thumb: well it works similar to what you explained there so your explanation is very close
nah.. i can´t say it was the fly or my daugther actually
but i was looking for an idea to comprehend in a easy way how the hell do our eyes catch things and send them to our brain(i know how it works from books but it wasn´t actually what i was looking for) anyways i made a test today using a higher resolution and instead of 30fps i used 60fps, for the audio i used lossless sound(the quality of the orginal file its alot better just in case).
Yes, my actual code can capture everything that moves on your display as it acts like an "EYE" lol and the brain is @ES
sadly youtube reduce the quality of the video and you can´t see the actual quality of the video... so that you can get an idea about the quality i´ve uploaded this image at imageshack of the original video running on WMP:
and here another pic to show the changes in bitrate, sizes and fps:
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Aldo, Aldo, Aldo.... its been a long time since i last talked to my mate Aldo.. i remember we worked on some stuff toguether in the past.. actually the good old ngemu days
we were the only Dominican coders here hehehehe. eitherway thank you for that as Aldo is one of the greates coders i´ve met here at ngemu not to mention we were born in the same country and city a release? well i actually didn´t thought on that yet as all am doing are some test to my code and @ES but who knows what the near future brings
the screen capture is actually one of my secret projects am working on right now so there´s still a lot more to come :thumb:1 - 18 of 18 Posts
