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Fraps -> Huffyuv -> x264 encoding: The colors looks washed out

I recorded a game using fraps. The recorded video looked great. Then I edited the video and encoded it with Huffyuv lossless codec. The video looked great. Finally, I encoded the video with x264 in ...
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Can FRAPS record movies outside of games?

Can FRAPS record movies outside of games? Their web site only talks about recording movies in games, so I'm not sure if it can record movies in other programs such as browsers. I installed it and ...
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Fraps own microphone is recording faster than the sound and screen of the pc itself

I am recording with fraps and I recorded a game of 40 minutes and watched it back. I noticed the sound of my microphone is being played earlier then the actual gameplay sound. Like I got a jumpscare ...
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How does one cancel Fraps loop-recording without recording?

Fraps has an innovative feature that it calls loop recording. With this option turned on, Fraps will always be recording the last amount of time that you specify (in seconds with a usual, unspoken ...
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How does FRAPS autostart?

This is sort of related to my other question, but where does windows store the autostart ("Run fraps when windows starts") data for fraps. I have checked msconfig under the startup tab, the startup ...
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Overlay/Get FPS of window

I'm not sure if this is more proper in stackexchange, but how do programs such as steam (the game overlay) and FRAPS overlay data over a window? I've noticed that the overlay/fraps can only work on ...
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Can Storage Spaces cause Fraps to stutter?

So I am using Storage Spaces to get multiple hard drives together under one Drive Letter (regular hard drives). I installed Fraps on it. My OS and my games are installed on another hard drive (an SSD)....
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How to change the "record external input" in Fraps?

I'm using a TV to USB capture thingy called Hauppauge USB-Live2 (http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_usblive2.html) and I'm using Media Player Classic Home Cinema to view my device's output, ...
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Audio Equalizer affecting FRAPS recording - Is there a way to create my own playback device?

Using Win7, A corsair vengeance 2000 headset and teamspeak. For about 2 weeks now, FRAPS is being affected by the equalizer settings I entered in the Corsair software. This means that when I play ...
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Recording desktop & game in the same video

I am trying to document a video game crash, I have Win7 and I tried using Fraps but I can only record either the desktop, or the game. But not both on the same video. For example, if I start ...
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What is some good lossless video codec for recording gameplay? [closed]

I'm an avid gamer and I like to record my gameplay. Usually I've been using Fraps to do it, however I'm thinking of switching to Dxtory as it allows to write on multiple HDDs at once. Say I have 3 ...
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How can I record my screen, with sound, and encode it live?

I need to record about two hours of streaming video. Is there a way to encode the video directly ? I've used fraps, but the files created are just enormous.
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