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How to upload Touhou videos in HD quality Tutorial
Tsym:
--- Quote from: Karisa on January 05, 2013, 05:29:40 AM ---I've been using HyperCam 2, which I don't believe automatically detects the sound input (image, the only other option is "Microphone (CS4206" [sic]). As far as I can tell, both from some random searches and my previous (successful) attempts at getting it to work in Windows XP, you need to select the sound input somewhere in the computer settings (in Windows 7, "Manage audio devices" in the control panel, "Recording" tab). However, as I said, it doesn't seem to exist.
Oh, by the way, as I thought, "Default sound recording device" records from the microphone, which not only picked up traces of a conversation that was going on outside, but included an annoying tapping sound effect in the recording every time I pressed a key.
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Oh, sorry, I assumed you wanted to do game + voice commentary at once since that's what I always used stereo mix for. In any case, screen capture programs should have an option to record from the speakers and not from the recording devices. I don't know why Hypercam 2 doesn't have that option. You could look around for another program that can capture Windows sound like Fraps, Camstudio, or UltraVNC, or you can get the VAC that I mentioned above. If the stereo mix option doesn't exist, then as I said before, your audio drivers/card don't support it, and there's not too much you can do about it since most audio cards are built into the motherboard nowadays. It's pretty stupid, and there really isn't too much you can do about it other than try VAC or try another recording program.
Agent of the BSoD:
The Stereo Mix is from the Realtek sound driver. Now the one issue you're going to have is that you have a MacBook Pro. It does not have a Realtek card, so the drivers wouldn't work properly anyway. You're probably stuck as it is. You can try installing the drivers anyway and see what happens. (I don't have stereo mix either, and since my card/box/thing isn't a realtek card, so the drivers didn't work properly) Fraps is good here because you don't need the Stereo Mix. It just records the sounds anyway.
Karisa:
So my previous computer had a Realtek sound card, even though it was also a MacBook (just a much older one)?
This is way more complicated than I anticipated. I thought getting a gift of a new computer meant I finally had a solution to my MS Extra recording slowdown issues, not cause additional recording issues. And I can't rely on the ability to keep using the old one, either, because the monitor is nearly broken.
Anyway, I just tried out Camstudio, which appears to have an option to record from speakers. Except setting it to that gave me a "WaveoutGetSelectControl() failed." error, then it still recorded from the microphone, and reverted to the microphone setting when I closed and reopened it (other settings were saved).
Additionally, it resulted in a huge file (149MB for 3 minutes, I normally expect 300-450MB for a full 1cc) which took several minutes to process after the recording stopped. I checked the compression settings but there seem to be only three available codecs, not including the ffdshow codec I've been using (which still works in HyperCam 2 verifying that it was reinstalled correctly), or even the Camstudio Lossless codec from the same site that I tried installing to see if it'd show up.
Zil:
Well, if it's come down to just trying different video capture programs until you find one that works, I used to use one called Debut that was always quite reliable, even when Camstudio would cause extreme levels of slowdown. It has a free version that can be used indefinitely. I can't make any promises about the quality though. (This is something I recorded with it, for example.)
I would say you could just buy Fraps and use that but I guess I'm born under some magical star that allows it to recognize Anex's window.
Agent of the BSoD:
CamStudio is kinda dumb. I've used it before, and have had the exact same problems you've described. Though, the list of codecs that I have is a bit larger than yours. Fraps's problem is not being able to record PC-98 games since they don't use the same video output format that Fraps tries to find. You're pretty much forced to use some other program to record those games.
And that's interesting that the Realtek driver worked with another MacBook. I don't remember Apple using Realtek cards in their computers. It might have just been able to handle it from BootCamp stuff?