[HOWTO]Setting Codec-Selecting Video External Codec (VFW)  

[HOWTO]Setting Codec-Selecting Video External Codec (VFW)

You can use x264vfw codec or VFW codec such as xVid in Ocam.

Click on CODEC menu of OCAM and pop up menu as below.
(External codec only supports AVI container.)

A window will appear as shown below, and check the Use external codec checkbox.


After checking, click the combo box item below to display the installed external codec of your computer.
Select the desired external codec and press the OK button.  


Now, when you start recording, the recording will proceed with the selected external codec.


If you do not want to use an external codec, click the External Codec menu as before, and uncheck the Use External Codec checkbox, the system will automatically select the last internal codec you used.

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[HOWTO]Setting codec-selecting video codec

You can change the codec by clicking the codec button in oCam main screen.
 


You will see a list of video containers and video codecs as shown below.

Supported video containers are MP4, MKV, M4V, MOV, WMV, FLV, AVI, TS, VOB.

Supported video codecs include NVIDIA NVENC H.264, Open H.264, MPEG-4, Microsoft MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-4, Microsoft MPEG-4 Part 3, Windows Media Video 8 (WMV8), MPEG- 2, MPEG-1, FLV.

Of these, the NVIDIA NVENC H.264 codec has an NVIDIA graphics card and is only supported by graphics cards with certain specifications or higher. Please note that if you select this codec using a graphics card, recording will fail.

The NVIDIA NVENC H.264 codec uses a hardware encoder built into the NVIDIA graphics card so you can record almost no rack when recording games.

In addition to the video codec, the video container also records sound during recording, so the audio codec is also used. Supported audio codecs support AAC, MP3, MP2, WMA, and FLAC.

In addition, it supports GIF. If you select and record a GIF, a GIF file is created instead of being recorded as a video file.


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