Overview of SecretFolder's Key Features
When you launch SecretFolder for the first time, a password setup window like the one below will appear, and you must enter a password before you can use the program.
After setting a password and launching SecretFolder, you will see buttons like the ones below.
Add - Adds the folder you want to hide.
Remove - Removes a previously added folder. ( The folder itself is not deleted; it is only removed from the list. )
Lock - Hides the folder added through the Add button.
Unlock - Makes a folder hidden through the Add or Lock button visible again.
Preferences - Opens the window where you can configure the main settings.
About - Opens the program information window.
Now let's look at how to hide a folder and restore it again.
First, to hide a folder, click the "Add" button.
When the Browse for Folder window appears, "select the folder you want to hide" and click the "OK" button.
You will then see that it has been added to the list as shown below, and the folder will be changed to a hidden state.
To remove a folder from the list, click the "Remove" button.
Clicking the "Yes" button will remove it from the list, but the actual folder will not be deleted.
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How to Use the x264vfw External Codec
oCam supports external codecs (VFW), and here we will look at how to use the x264 codec.
You can download the x264 codec from the site below.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/
Go to the site and click the Download button.
The download will start automatically.
On the installation screens, just keep clicking Next.
Accept the license agreement.
Specify the installation path.
The installation is complete.
Click Finish.
After installing the codec, you must restart oCam before it will appear in the external codec list.
After restarting oCam, click the Codec button in the oCam main window, then click the External Codec menu.
Select the Use External Codec checkbox.
From the list, select x264vfw - H264/MPEG-4 AVC codec.
Then click the Settings button to view the detailed codec settings.
The codec settings window will appear as shown below. Since we need to record the screen in real time rather than perform normal video encoding, select Ultrafast in Preset and check the Zero Latency checkbox so that encoding is performed as quickly as possible, then click the OK button.
( This setting method is useful for real-time recording, and you can adjust it as needed depending on your situation. )
After configuring it this way, your recording will use the x264 codec.
* For game recording, if the game you want to record is 64-bit, you must also install the 64-bit version when installing x264vfw ( by default, it is installed automatically unless you change the installation options ). Then run x264vfw - Configure x264vfw64 from the Start menu and configure it the same way as described above.
* The x264vfw settings Keep/Accept only YUV 4:2:0, Keep/Accept only YUV 4:2:2, and Keep/Accept only YUV 4:4:4 are not supported, and recording will fail if you use those settings.