VH Screen Capture Driver
"VH Screen Capture Driver" is a DirectShow filter, which emulates Video Capture card and captures screen activity.
Do you want to capture screen content, but your favorite capture software doesn't support capture from screen? Now, with VH Screen Capture Driver, you can select capture for screen as a virtual device in any DirectShow-based capture application.
VH Screen Capture Driver is designed to be highly compatible with DirectShow capture software and is optimized to provide best performance. It can be used with any DirectShow-based application which you like as a capture source, still the capture speed depends on specific software. VH Screen Capture Driver allows to keep aspect ratio during resize, and follow mouse pointer when output size less than capture area. It a good solution to broadcast screen content through network (internet), because you can reduce required bandwidth and keep good video quality.
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When you select the "VH Screen Capture Driver" as your Video Capture device you are able to configure it's properties via control panel. To call control panel in your Video Capture software you need to find where it sets current filter's property page. Examples how to call the panel in different programs are provided in documentation and below.
Screenshots:
Examples (how to use and/or open CAPTURE and SETTINGS dialogs):
iuVCR
http://www.iulabs.com/iuvcr/index.shtmlSelect Video tab
Device Settings -> Configure
AMCap (sample from DirectX SDK)
http://www.hmelyoff.com/download/AMCap.exeMenu select
Options -> Video Capture Filter
Video Ghost
http://mipagina.cantv.net/mmiranda/Right click screen select
"Device Setting" select "Common Properties"
the dialog which allows to set the filter
properties wil apear.
VideoWDMControl
http://www.asvzzz.com/download.htmSelect VHScrCap in Video Capture Filter combo box
and press Video Capture Filter button.
Main features of VH Screen Capture Driver:
- Follow mouse pointer
- Skype support
- multimonitor support
- fast and highly optimized capture from screen
- real-time scaling (resizing) of captured images
- keep aspect ratio during resize
- control for output video dimensions
- auto selection for best optimization method
- interactive window or region selection
- realtime window position indentification
- manual region setup
- align video dimensions for non aligned capture regions
- fill non-visible parts with border color
- framerate controll
- capture mouse movements and shows mouse clicks
- supports URL for source (VHScrCap://)
- full Flash and Windows Media Player support
- XML settings loading (see example)
- multi-instance support
- controlling and connection to any VHScrCap instance (for applications, which cannot show capture filter's properties)
- new API (ver. 2 and later), supports C++, C#, Java, Delphi, etc.
- includes free VH Screen Codec (optimized to compress screen activity)
- free for private use
System requirements:
- Microsoft Windows 98 (or later), Windows 2000 (or later)
- DirectX 8 (or later)
- Pentium II-compatible, AMD-compatible, 600MHz or better CPU
- 32 Mb of RAM
- 2 Mb of HDD free space for installation
For support or integrate VH Screen Capture Driver with other software, please, go to customization section.
Any use of this software program which is illegal under international or local law is forbidden. Any such action is the sole responsibility of the person committing the action.