ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Capture Entire Screen to HD WMV Video

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ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Capture Entire Screen to HD WMV Video

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How to capture entire screen to HD WMV video in VBScript and VB6 and ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK

How to code in VBScript and VB6 to capture entire screen to HD WMV video with this step-by-step tutorial

ByteScout tutorials are designed to explain the code for both VBScript and VB6 beginners and advanced programmers. ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK can capture entire screen to HD WMV video. It can be used from VBScript and VB6. ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK is the screen video recording SDK helps in quick implementation of screen video recording. WMV, AVI, WebM output options are available with adjustable quality, video size, framerate and video and audio codec. Includes special features like live multiple blacking out of selected areas, recording from web cam as main source and as overlay, optional watermarks for output video.

The SDK samples like this one below explain how to quickly make your application do capture entire screen to HD WMV video in VBScript and VB6 with the help of ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK. Just copy and paste the code into your VBScript and VB6 application’s code and follow the instruction. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample VBScript and VB6 codes.

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CaptureScreenToHDWMV.vbs

      ' create video capturer activex object
Set capturer = CreateObject("BytescoutScreenCapturing.Capturer")

' set output video file name to .WMV 
capturer.OutputFileName = "EntireScreenCapturedHD.wmv" 

' set capturing type to the caScreen =3 to capture the entire screen
capturer.CapturingType = 3

' set bitrate to 10 mb/sec - high bitrate is required for HD video
capturer.WMVVideoBitrate  = 1024*1024*10

' output video width and height to HD video size 1920x1080
capturer.OutputWidth = 1920
capturer.OutputHeight = 1080

' uncomment to enable recording of semitransparent or layered windows (Warning: may cause mouse cursor flickering)
' capturer.CaptureTransparentControls = true

MsgBox "This script will record 1920x1080 video from entire screen for 15 seconds. Output video will go to EntireScreenCapturedHD.wmv"

' run video capturing 
capturer.Run()

' IMPORTANT: if you want to check for some code if need to stop the recording then make sure you are 
' using Thread.Sleep(1) inside the checking loop, so you have the loop like
' Do 
' Thread.Sleep(1) 
' While StopButtonNotClicked

' wait for 15 seconds (15000 msec)
WScript.Sleep(15000)

' stop capturing
capturer.Stop()

' destroy Capturer object so the video will be saved into the disk
Set capturer = Nothing

MsgBox "Ready! Check EntireScreenCapturedHD.wmv"