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title: "open-source screen recording software"
date: "2013-01-25"
modified: "2013-04-04"
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Camstudio is handy for capturing what you are showing on screen:

<http://camstudio.org/>

The output generates something like the following which was originally a high resolution 565Mb AVI converted to MP4 for faster playback:

<div>
<video src="/projects/camstudio/winfields-speed-test.mp4" class="size-auto" controls></video>
</div>

The screen capture above was generated to prove to the client how fast the website was outside of their network - this was a Magento Enterprise running Varnish as a frontend caching proxy, APC for file-based caching and memcached for object caching. The result was a speedy sub < 0.002ms initially delivery with the site appearing within < 2 seconds, even with a load of 180 people. Product searching and uncached product pages took a little longer to display at around 5-7 seconds.