I am an idiot, so if I can get these results you can too!
I know the "pros" out there may snicker at this, but I don't know a thing about video and this works flawlessly for me to at least 640x480 resolution capturing video and sound - the resulting vid has fantastic picture quality and smooth as heck replay, with really GREAT file sizes!
Ingredients:
1. MSR, preferably the Pro version;
2. The most recent version of MS Mpeg4 V2 - I haven't tried others, and I guess they should work, but my version is from undercut.org. MSR recognizes it with no problem.
Settings:
Audio: PCM 22.05 khz mono 16 bit
Video: MPEG4 V2
MSR settings:
Vid qual = 100
Frames = 30
Key frames = 8
Config settings for codec:
8 in key frames
100 in smooth/crisp
6000 in data rate
I just hope I can help others like me who need a literally fool-proof setup to get high quality recording with Deskshare's wonderful product.
I am happy as can be with MSR!!! Thank YOU Deskshare.