[Milardo]

Hi, right now for a freeware screen recorder I use Debut screen recorder software.

It is freeware but you have to watch out when installing it, be careful about the installation process. Also, when recording to like mpeg or flv it has to download separate components which are free I believe but strange it doesn't come with it already. For the best quality I use the windows media 9 codec for video and choose a mpeg layer 3 for audio.

It can record videos that play in windows media player and embedded flash players without adjusting hardware acceleration. It might be able to record screen activity from games too haven't tried it yet.

I still have freeware zd soft screen recorder which I don't use right now because of audio issues. However it might work great for you.

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Freeware screen video recorder software for Windows:

• CamStudio
• Debut
• BB FlashBack Express
• Freez Screen Video Capture
• Jing
• TipCam
• The last free version of ZD Soft Screen Recorder

Freeware online screen video recorder software (Windows/Linux/Mac OS/...)
I don't really like web-based screen recorders, because they limit your recording time plus they worked slower for me giving worse quality. But they are free, work on many platforms besides Windows and theoretically can be used from any computer where you can install Java 1.5 and a web-browser

• Screencast-O-Matic
• Screen Toaster

Freeware cross-platform screen video recorder software (Windows/Linux/Mac OS/...)

• vnc2flv

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TAKSI (Windows) - free open source video capture/screen capture software. It allows to take screenshots and record video clips of your favourite games and other 3D-graphics applications.

Main features:

• Taksi can support live video compression with any VFW video codec your system has installed (i.e. XVid, DivX, MS Mpeg4, etc).
  
• Supports user-specified key mapping, allowing user to assign almost any key to a particular function (such as video start/stop, screenshot trigger, etc.).
  
• Custom video settings are supported
  Basically, this allows a user to specify on a per-game basis the frame rate of the captured video, and the weight of each source frame. The weight determines whether a particular frame is captured or not. This allows for creation of smoother and faster videos, when generic algorithm doesn't produce desired results.
• DirectX 8, DirectX 9, OpenGL and GDI based applications are supported.
• Video can be recorded at either full-size, or half-size in each dimension (using bilinear minification filter).
• Audio is NOT captured.
• There is no imposed limit on the duration of the video, only available disk space is your limit.
• Screenshot file format: PNG or 24-bit BMP
• Video file format: compressed or uncompressed AVI using any VFW codecs

Supported OS: Win95/98/ME, WinNT4.0/2K/XP.

Latest stable version is 0.7.6 (from June.22, 2006)