[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 up oCam - Animated GIF

When you click Tools-Options on the oCam main menu, you'll learn about the settings of the GIF categories.

 
This option is applied when the codec is selected by clicking the codec button in the Ocam main window and selecting "GIF Animation (.GIF)".


Include mouse cursor
-Check whether to include mouse cursor when recording with GIF codec. It is checked by default.

GIF settings-FPS
-Set FPS of GIF animation.

Resize
-This option has the same settings as the video scale option, and applies only to the GIF codec.


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