I need a way to record movie

[ps2huang]

I am watching movie by dialing its given numbers to see. I want to record it into something I can save and see in Media player, so do you know any free software that could record some flicks I am watching into MP?

[atinymonkey]

Pardon me?

[insane_alien]

He's getting movies by phoning up some DVD rental shop or getting them broadcast over the internet. he wants to know if there is a bit of software that will allow him to record these movies as they play through windows mediaplayer. ... i think.

[atinymonkey]

Ah. I think Media Player has prevention's on copy protected software that prevents the streaming images being captured. There would have to be an intermediary piece of software/hardware to capture them, such as a video camera recording back to the HD. Of course you could only legally copy the movie if you had bought a copy, which would make the question of how to record it a little pointless. If you really wanted pirate movies there are share sites where you can get them for free, with much less effort involved.

[MetaFrizzics]

There is an easy way. You use an animated screen capture like DemoCharge2005, save it as an animated GIF, and then port the file into PaintShopPro 7 which has 'Animation Shop' built into it (or accompanying it). Animation Shop is an easy program to use for editing and creating animated GIFs. That's how I created my AVATAR.

 

When you are capturing the screen, you can choose to only grab a portion of the screen, i.e., the window which is playing the video. This will save memory. Don't grab too large a piece unless you have unlimited memory and hard disk space. Don't grab too long a segment either. Final advice: You can use a '30 day free version' of DemoCharge, but it puts its own logo across portions of the screen. You will work around this by selecting a slightly larger area. You can crop away the extra unneeded parts of the screen in Animation Shop.

 

This can all be done for free if you download the demo version(s) I have mentioned.

Good Luck! Let me know if this works for you. There may also be other programs which can do a similar job, at least of editing, like Adobe AfterEffects (rather expensive) for just a quick screen grab. They used to sell something for Windows 95 called ScreenCam which was great, but it won't run under Windows 2000/NT.