jaclaz Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Yesterday I wanted to show to a developer the behaviour of a tool of his, so, to make a small "video" of how the program behaved I got Camstudio, which is seemingly a nice program, BUT that comes as a "online installer", with (optional) programs (adware), and that nice as it might be is a huge piece of bloat, the stupid 650 Kb installer downloaded and installed some 40 Mb or so.Then I proceeded to record the behaviour of the program, just a few seconds of "screenshot video", which turned out as a .avi file some 262 Mb in size .Being the smart guy I am , I quickly fired up good ol' virtualdub : and quickly converted the .avi to an animated .gif, which resulted in some 1 Mb file, perfectly clear and visible.Problem solved. Today I checked a bit around if there was a simpler solution, and found in no time the nice Licecap B) :http://www.cockos.com/licecap/which plainly and simply and directly records screenshots to animated ,gif.Don't be (too) fooled by the:LICEcap v1.24 for Windows (12/29/13) (300kb installer)the file \licecap124-install.exe opens allright with 7-zip and contains licecap.exe 145.484 bytes in size which works fine even if double clicked from within 7-zip. (the installer file also contains the source)I tried replicating the same actions I had recorded yesterday and, including a "title screenshot" I obtained a similarly sized (actually a tidbit smaller) 1 Mb file, also perfectly clear and with the added bonus of highlighting with a circle mouse clicks.The morals of the story are:small is beautiful, and small and fully portable is even better. you don't need a cannon to shoot a flyjaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tain Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 :golfclap: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bphlpt Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 +1 Cheers and Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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