Recording Media Players and Games
Many different media players including Windows Media Player use the Microsoft ®
DirectX ® technology. This technology completely disables screen recording.
To capture DirectX surfaces (i.e. to record videos of media players) using My Screen
Recorder Pro, you have to disable hardware acceleration. Some game applications
may not work when hardware acceleration is turned off. You can always re-enable
acceleration after recording.
If Windows Media Player is running, My Screen Recorder Pro will automatically detect
it and suggest turning off hardware acceleration.
To turn off hardware acceleration in Windows XP:
- Right-click on the Desktop, and click Properties.
- Select the Settings tab, and click Advanced.
- Select the Troubleshooting tab and move the Hardware Acceleration
slider to None.
To turn off hardware acceleration in Windows Vista:
- Right-click on the Desktop and choose Personalize.
- Click on Display Settings.
- in the Display Settings window, click Advanced Settings.
- Switch to the Troubleshoot tab.
- Click Change Settings.
- Reduce hardware acceleration.
Media Players and games display very high motion graphics and can take up a lot
of CPU resources which may produce blocky screen recordings. A high-end computer
is required to handle both the graphics and the screen recording simultaneously.
You can smooth screen recording significantly by:
- Increasing the frame rate to 30 so every frame in the graphic is correctly recorded.
Sometimes even recording at maximum available frame rate will not give smooth recordings
since capturing at such high frame rate requires a very large amount of CPU resources.
- Decreasing the area of the screen to be recorded. If the software displays
graphics in a window then use region recording to record only that portion of the
software.
- Decreasing screen resolution and color depth.
My Screen Recorder Pro can be set to automatically disable hardware acceleration
whenever you start recording. Click on the link below for instructions.
Note that Windows Vista does not allow My Screen Recorder Pro to disable hardware
acceleration. You may have to do so manually. If the necessary options
are not present for manual disabling, check with the maker of your PC for a video
driver upgrade.
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