ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Use WMV Profile for Video Settings

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ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Use WMV Profile for Video Settings

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How to use WMV profile for video settings in VBScript and VB6 and ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK

This tutorial will show how to use WMV profile for video settings in VBScript and VB6

The coding tutorials are designed to help you test the features without need to write your own code. ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK is the SDK for developers for quick implementation of screen video recording. The SDK records screen into video or into a series of screenshots. Can also record audio. Saves video into AVI,WMV and Google’s WebM. Output video quality, size, resolution or framerate can be adjusted easily. Provides additional tools for privacy features like blacking out on scren areas with sensitive information on screen right during recording. Supports web camera as input and can add instant text and images into video output. It can use WMV profile for video settings in VBScript and VB6.

This rich sample source code in VBScript and VB6 for ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK includes the number of functions and options you should do calling the API to use WMV profile for video settings. Follow the instructions from the scratch to work and copy the VBScript and VB6 code. Code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly with your data.

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RecordUsingWMVProfileFromFile.vbs

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

' set output video file name to .WMV or .AVI file
capturer.OutputFileName = "CustomProfileUsed.wmv" 

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

capturer.WMVProfileFile = "customprofile600x800.prx"

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

' 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 and record for 5 seconds
WScript.Sleep(5000)

' stop capturing
capturer.Stop()

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

MsgBox "Done"