<p>What's a good program to record videos or screencasts being played on screen?</p>

[{'answer_id': 59526, 'author': 'harriyott', 'author_id': 5744, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5744', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I\'ve had success with Camtasia / CamStudio.  Check out <a href="http://showmedo.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://showmedo.com</a> for tutorials.  It\'s a little recursive though - it would be better to capture it from source.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 59541, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If you\'re using Vista the latest version of <a href="http://www.fraps.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Fraps</a> might also do what you need. I haven\'t tried it for that, though, just games</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 100770, 'author': 'Ian Ozsvald', 'author_id': 18688, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/18688', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>On Windows, you have <a href="http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CamTasia</a> (commercial), <a href="http://camstudio.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CamStudio</a> (GPL), <a href="http://www.fraps.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FRAPS</a> (commercial with free trial).</p>\n\n<p>FRAPS will definitely do your job, it was designed to capture videos of 3D games.  CamTasia might, it has a low-level custom codec (TechSmith Capture Codec).  CamStudio probably won\'t, at least not smoothly.  CamStudio has issues on Vista, I don\'t know about FRAPS, CamTasia is fine on Vista.</p>\n\n<p>On the Mac try ScreenFlow, their <a href="http://www.flip4mac.com/screenflow.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">example video</a> makes it clear it can capture live video streams.</p>\n\n<p>On Linux you\'ll be in a bit of trouble.  If you recompile ffmpeg you might get it recording video.  I think recordmydesktop won\'t do the job.  </p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1030350, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>DemoCreator could be an good option. It is easy to use, and there are powerful editing features with it.</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html#107" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html</a></p>\n'}]
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