[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

[FAQ]When you start recording, Error message appears Failed to initialize sound library. Check the Windows Audio service is running.

Check the sound playback on your PC first.
You may get this error if you try to record on a PC that is unable to play sound.

If you try to record from a PC that can't play sound,

Click the Sound button in the Ocam main window.


A pop-up menu will appear and the system sound recording is checked, but it should look like the following.


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