Recording non-recordable video streams using ZD Soft Screen Recorder

ZD Soft Screen Recorder (Freeware/Windows) - is freeware, however, it is as powerful as most of the commercial screen recording software on the market, especially outstanding on the recording speed and the output file quality:
Recording Speed: Driver-based screen recording technology allows to record screen activities in an extreme high speed with very low CPU usage. It ensures you get the best screen recording experience unlike the other screen recording software make your computer jerk.
Output File Quality: Specially designed real-time lossless video compression algorithm allows to compress screen activity data in a very high compression ratio. In the normal case, a compressed lossless video file is just a little bigger or sometimes smaller than an MPEG-4 encoded lossy video file. (Note: MPEG-4 encoded lossy video file is also supported by ZD Soft Screen Recorder).

Main features:

• 100% FREE software.
• Fast recording speed.
• Very low CPU usage.
• High quality but small output file.
• Supports recording whole screen, specified area of screen, specified window.
• Supports sound recording (AVI and WMV support only, SRV and EXE will support soon).
• Supports specifying recording FPS.
• Supports user-defined hotkeys.
• Supports snapshot by hotkey.
• Supports recording mouse movements smoothly.
• Supports recording mouse clicks.
• Supports hiding desktop wallpaper.
• Supports specifying output file quality.
• Supports outputting to SRV file (ZD Soft Screen Recorder's native format), EXE file (Self-playback executable file), AVI file (MSMPEG4 V2 video format, MP3 audio format), WMV file (MSMPEG4 V3 video format, MP3 audio format).
• Supports editing built-in file info (title, author and description).
• Supports screen recording control (start/stop/pause/resume).
• Supports file appending (SRV and EXE support only).
• Supports file playback control (play/quick-play/pause/resume/stop/seek).
• Neat, simple and easy-to-use user interface.
• Supports online live updating to the latest version.

System Requirements:

• Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz or faster compatible CPU.
• 128 MB or more RAM.
• 2.0 GB available hard disk space.
• Keyboard and mouse or compatible pointing device.
• Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 or later version.
• Windows Media Player 9 or compatible software. (for WMV or AVI file playback)

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