If you develop an application which is intended to record screen activities to WMV, AVI movie files, use Bytescout Screen Capturing SDK to easily add screen video capturing functionality to your application. This screen recording SDK lets you create high quality desktop record including audio, mouse movements and clicks.

See videos recorded from computer with Bytescout Screen Video Capturing SDK (different recording modes):

  • Full screen:
  • Rectangular region:
  • Application window:
  • Mouse cursor:

Benefits:

  • Adds screen video capture functionality to your application with a few lines of code using ActiveX/COM object!
  • Royalty-free distribution along with your product/application (Developer License is required);
  • Includes 3 interfaces that allow you to capture screen video using ActiveX driven screen recorder, DirectShow Filter, or Virtual Camera to provide both high and low level components;
  • Provides DirectShow Source Filter, interface for advanced video applications developers;
  • Supports video formats: WMV, AVI, lossless AVI (using the included Bytescout Lossless Video Codec);
  • Allows capturing various regions of a desktop:
    • record entire desktop – a good solution for employee monitoring, parental control applications, etc.;
    • capture selected rectangle region of a screen – the most flexible solution that is usually added to any screen recording software;
    • grab dynamic region around a mouse cursor – handy solution for user assistance, creating interactive demonstrations, etc.;
    • record predefined window or application – the best solution for creating tutorials and software simulations.
  • While recording mouse movements, adds hot-spot to highlight cursor and animates mouse clicks to make cursor and clicks easily recognizable in output video;
  • Captures sound from any available source along with screen recording;
  • Pause and Resume functions available for both WMV and AVI output formats;
  • Custom name for the filter or capturer object is available (see licensing options);
  • API to blackout selected areas containing sensitive customer information on video at run-time;
  • Royalty-free licensing: no additional run-time licenses or run-time fees;
  • New (version 2.10.832): text overlay supports date and time macros while used with web cam overlay;
  • audio recording is enabled by default;
  • better handling of missing audio hardware errors;
  • custom WMV profile sample added;
  • Java source code sample added;
  • .net source code samples updated;
  • low FPS recording with WMV and Windows Media Video 9 Screen codec source code samples added.

This screen recorder SDK simplifies developing screen recording software in any programming language. It includes Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic .NET, Visual C# .NET sample source codes and is compatible with any programming language that supports ActiveX. Mono .NET Framework compatible. Enhance your applications with screen video capturing functionality using the powerful toolkit – Bytescout Screen Capturing SDK.

HOW TO IMPROVE VIDEO QUALITY: to compress video without a quality loss just install and use our Bytescout Lossless Video Codec for AVI video files. read more and download