Review: AVIscreen Classic 1.3

ok, ZDsoft Screen Recorder has become a horror: Shareware, so I went out looking for an alternative. Unfortunately, ZD was virtually the only decent free screen recorder out there, as the others are shareware, or just crap. Anyway, hours and hours of searching, and 5 other software tests later, I came across one worth keeping: AVIscreen.

AVIscreen is different from all the others simply because it keeps its frame rate. 3 of the others (out of 5) recorded at less than 15 FPS, under half of what I wanted. AVIscreen records at whatever you tell it to, and stays at that FPS. Next, features. Nearly all screen recorders have still image capture, and AVIscreen supports both JPG and BMP stills, but also GIFs. Weird. Also, you can set the JPG quality. (But I use this) But what about the stuff that matters? The video? Well, AVIscreen has many different dimensions, and all of them are very, very easy-to-use, so good. You can use loads of settings, but I find uncompressed fine. There's also a delay if you need it. Nice. There is one major glitch, though. If you have Hardware Acceleration on, the recording goes hyper! If you need to disable it, look no further than here. Once you have done that, AVIscreen will become very handy. Admittedly, AVIscreen doesn't record audio, but you can just use Sound Recorder, and put it together with Movie Maker. Not perfect, by any means, but considering the competition, it deserves a:

(7) out of 10!
No sound, but there's a piece of magic called Windows Sound Recorder...

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NOTE!!!! It is suggested that if you want to record games, you have at least 1GB of RAM and a Dual Core Processor, or both recorder and game will run sloooooowwwww...