screen capture video recorder supporting MPEG-2 and DVD

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Hi,

I need screen capture video recorder supporting MPEG-2 and DVD

Many screen video capture programs support MPEG-2 video, including WM Capture and Replay Video Capture.

If you record video from screen using the following settings:
-Video MPEG-2 720x576 (PAL) or 720x480 (NTSC)
-Audio MP2 or AC3, 48000Hz

then you will be able to create DVD-Video discs from such MPEG-2 video recordings losslessly. See the following thread for more:
How to convert MPEG-2 .MPEG videos to DVD-Video with menu, without quality loss?

It takes so much time to author a DVD, burn it, so it might be better to use network media players. Such players support the most popular video formats, and you can play almost any video with them.

No matter how I don't like the DVD-Video burning option, many people still like burning DVD-Video discs.

Replay Video Capture 5 / WM Capture 5 can be handy in these cases. It allows to record from screen into DVD ISO image format ready to be burned on a disc. This eliminates the need to choose the size of the recorded region, as well as hours of conversion or transcoding.

How to record High Quality DVD videos with WM Capture / Replay Video Capture

You need to make sure that your computer can sustain a recording frame rate of at least 29.97 for NTSC, 25 fps for PAL. XP dual core computers with CPU speed of 2.0 GHz or higher can easily do this. On Vista and Windows 7 you may have to set Windows to "Best Performance" mode instead of "Best Appearance" as shown under Video Capture Options. To check if the DVD frame rate can be sustained, make a short two minute recording, use DVD video format, 6000 kbps, 29.97 fps, 720x480 size. When recording WM Capture / Replay Video Capture shows the actual achieved frame rate next to the preset rate in the Status window (for example 29/27 or 29/31 - the first number is the preset rate 29.97 the second is the actual achieved frame rate). Make sure the actual frame rate does not go much lower. If this happens consistently you can still record DVD's but the video quality may not be as good especially for high motion scenes.

The recorded DVD file needs to be "authored". The authoring creates the DVD folders VIDEO_TS / AUDIO_TS and usually takes a few seconds to a few minutes. It can be done automatically when recording is finished. The DVD folders can be burned as Data Disc using any DVD burner software (a two hour movie takes about 15 minutes to burn.) The recorded DVD does not have a menu so it begins playing when inserted into the DVD player. The DVD video has chapters set every 10 minutes such that the DVD can be quickly scanned in 10 minutes increments.

To maintain a reasonable frame rate of at least 20 fps even on slower computers

• the recording video size must be smaller than 1/4 of your screen.
• do not use the Full Screen videos, always try to make the video window smaller
• if the video plays in a web page use the Zoom function of the browser to make the web page and the video smaller