CamStudio

It was recently brought to our attention that a fake CamStudio site appeared on Sourceforge – project name: CamStudios (with an “s” at the end) – and that somehow they had managed to hack the main CamStudio website and change the download URL to their project. This fake CamStudio was infected with malware. Some analysis [...]

The newest CamStudio 2.6 beta build (date 5th October 2010)  R273 is now available to download from Sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/files/CamStudio 2.6 beta/ As usual with beta builds, please only onto a test machine or at the ... [More] very least one that isn’t “mission critical” This build fixes the “missing pixels” problem resulting in the recording area dimensions [...] [Less]

Blimey … it’s been a while since we last spoke … how’s everything? Family alright? Oh good! I just thought I’d stop by and let you know that the latest version of CamStudio – 2.6beta has been uploaded for your perusal should you feel the urge. You ... [More] can get it directly from Sourceforge here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/files/ I’ve setup a dedicated support [...] [Less]

So, I got an email from Google engineer Dimi Shahbaz a little while ago … I have been working on a command-line only version of CamStudio, for use internally (at Google) to record automated tests, where the GUI is not usable. About my changes: I run my version from the command-line only, and it records the entire [...]

CamStudio user Jard Y Dooku (otherwise known as Jake) sent me an email the other day saying he’d fixed the bug with the lossless codec that made the black bar appear when the width wasn’t divisible by 4. So all being well you shouldn’t see the black bar appear on the screen anymore. It’s available to download [...]

Calling all coding geeks! CamStudio user Tim McCarthy has spent a lot of his time over the last few days going through the source for the CamStudio Recorder program and has fixed a load of bugs and sorted out some of the (apparently) nightmare-inducing code. It’s been uploaded to Sourceforge and is ready for people to compile [...]

This is something I’ve been meaning to get done for months now, but finally I got around to getting some help. Last month a CamStudio user, Carlo Lanzotti sent me a version of CamStudio with a number of fixes but he lost the full list of changes and fixes he made. This is the list he sent [...]

“mcclenj” just posted this as a comment, which I thought I’d post here so everyone can see it … Okay, this is TOTALLY the solution for Vista users, anyone who gets the “WaveoutGet…blah blah” error, who only hears static on the audio, etc. At least it worked for me. All you gotta do is open up [...]

Sorry about the extended downtime … Turns out my webhost thought one of their MySQL servers had suffered a hack and promptly shut it down. Unfortunately all my websites using blogs (CamStudio too) and anything remotely dynamic used that database ... [More] server and so everything went dark - including my mailing list software, so I couldn’t even update [...] [Less]

Okey Doke - you wanted it, so here it is: http://camstudio.org/forum Right now, members are manually approved so it might take 24 hours-ish to be granted access. I’m still getting to grips with the Vanilla forum software so you might see some changes ... [More] as new features and functions are added. Anyone interested in becoming a moderator, reply here and [...] [Less]