[Tips]Download external codecs  

[Tips]Download external codecs

The following external codecs have been arranged, so please install and use if you need.

If you restart Ocam after installing an external codec, it appears in the External codec item.

 

 

http://ohsoft.net/update/codec.php

 

The Xvid video codec implements MPEG-4 Simple Profile and Advanced Simple Profile standards. 

 

x264vfw is the VfW (Video for Windows) version of well known x264 encoder + ffh264 decoder. 

 

The VP8 codec encodes with same or higher quality than most H.264 video encoders. 

 

Lagarith is a lossless video codec intended for editing and archiving. 



Additional tips

[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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