Dear users,

we would like to apologise for the PCWinSoft registration issues. If you still have any trouble with registration or think that your copy of the program works in trial version, visit this page to activate the application:
http://www.pcwinsoft.com/promotion/giveawayoftheday/registration.asp

We have got a special topic devoted to this situation on our forums. Feel free to discuss it and other things there if you need any help.

Best regards,
Alessandro Ferri from PCWinSoft and GOTD team

I hope this comes around again...I had a technical glitch and could not get it to download for some reason? Was the server down or something?

@ #56, Frog,
I don't know much about it, plus you explained it in a confusing way, but every time we run the activation program it has to make a connection with the GOTD server to check for "key availability". Isn't this the main obstacle? Does your comment show how to resolve this?

this program doesn't seem to work with my dual monitor setup.
Not sure what the deal is but is really annoying

@ #15, #20, and #35

@#15 First of all: your comment's about portable apps don't even make sense? It's useless babble! WTF?

@ #20

Personally, I'm not worried about reinstalling an app if something goes wrong, and I doubt that most others who like portable apps do either!

The reason I like portable apps is the fact that they do not inject 100's of utterly useless Registry entries on my machine! That's the reason everyone I know prefers portable apps and I'm sure the higher percentage of those here mentioning portable apps would tell you the same. BTW... thanks for mentioning Cameyo. It looks interesting.

@ #35 who said: "I’d suggest checking to see if you have a recent backup or Restore Point handy — if you want to get rid of all the registry ads that is… in win7 32 I recorded near 20k of them."

Why in the hell should someone have to worry about restoring a registry back made by EDRNT, etc. or have to revert to a previous restore point to get rid of 100's of utterly useless and unneeded entries added to the Registry by an application of any type?

It's a fairly simple process to make any application portable. In fact, it wouldn't be a hard at all for a competent coder to create a portable application - like the ones given away here - that could only be registered once. For example, they could code the "giveaway registration" to be valid until 2:00 AM giveawayoftheday.com server time; the same time that it is now.

Just my 2 cents. ;)

Frog

I do wish people would stop blaming GAOTD for the programs presented here. The people here at GAOTD are simply providing a service, both for the users and for the producers of this and other software. They are not responsible for the level of quality or suitability of the software. Part of what should go on here is that some of us may decide to test a program to see if it does work. The bad ones may get improved as a result. That is the whole purpose of us all being here.
I must admit I did have doubts about any program that claims to be the "ultimate" of anything. I'm glad of the reviews here and glad for those who post alternatives.

To 16 and 36, I join you in urging people to take note when this program turns into an EVAL VERSION and expires. It happened to me for both 1AVCapture and 1AVCENTER both acquired HERE. A steamy coiler on the heads of those responsible.

I'm a Camtasia Studio user but I tried this app out of curiosity it being a free giveaway of the day and all. It's awkward to select the region you want to record, the capture is mediocre at best and to produce the video you're limited to AVI and WMV containers. This app is similiar to Replay Video Capture.

I used to have a GOTD that would record video and sound but that laptop died; after not finding a replacement, I managed to power up the old laptop to find the name: Aiseesoft. I downloaded it but it no longer records audio. Camsoft, Netvideohunter, more -- none record audio. Record thru speakers? Sure, I'll just muzzle the dogs across the street. Why won't apps do video AND audio anymore? I'd pay for an app that would do this. Until then I'll live without it; I'm done jumping thru hoops.

Despite what it says on the install window, I don't get an option to install to where I want to. I have a previous version installed to the drive of my choice.

@ #36:

exactly what I was talking about in post #16

I also got 1AVCenter and it remains registered, but this one deactivated itself. Sorry if my previous post seemed to blame GAOTD specifically, but I agree that we do need to report these programs that return to trial versions

- might just be a glitch in the copy protections - as another pointed out, these giveaways are not portable so they do employ protections that might cause a discrepency in the registry or something - if it's purchased software, it's not an issue, but it would be nice to have a way to keep your registration for the same machine in case it needs to be reinstated. A few giveaways actually do register you on an account - seems intrusive, but it's actually a great benefit for situations like these.

Andy (#20) and/or any other GAOTD'er:

Application virtualization, and in particular, the Cameyo app, seems to be an ideal solution.

But, apparently, there are numerous applications that Cameyo will not virtualize. Is there a list of those apps which cannot be virtualized by Cameo?

Can we virtualize Microsoft Access, or Microsoft Powerpoint, or Photoshop? That is, I am sure that Microsoft and Adobe and others will figure out ways to avoid having their software virtualized, because, if these could be virtualized, it would mean that you could run them on any pc, which likely would violtate the EULA.

@ 36 - I didn’t know where else to report this ..

Sounds like you may have accidentally allowed the programs to "update," which is a huge no-no with GOTD. If you DO upgrade, your "free" program will switch to a trial version every time.

Hope this helps,

Powder_Skier

The install & activate went smoothly on my Vista/64-bit PC. All I want to do is record audio using START & STOP points. What 1AVCapture profile must I create to satisfy this?

I had a similar problem to #36 but mine was immediate. I installed and then activated it and got an activation confirmation page, but when I returned to the program it said 'Evaluation Version'. However, when I opened it again this morning, that was gone so maybe it just needed a restart. I will be on the lookout for a further glitch though.

I'm not sure about this one yet....it seems a little messy and confusing, even with the so-called help page, but I'll play with it a bit more before I give up. It seems to have potential. Thanks GOTD & PCwinsoft!

warning!!! I have installed this application before, after few months of use, it sent me a message claiming there is a free upgrade, after I run the upgrade it rest my license and the application turned to 30 days trial. this is not a coincidence, please beware.
Now I know that GOTD are without upgrades but the message was far from clear. if you decide to install this program, do not accept any "free offers"

First attempt ended up with a full screen capture, not what I wanted, but nonetheless.

The rest of my attempts were with a selected screen region.

I did nothing with sound, so know nothing of it.

Easy enough to use. Options are kind of disjointed. Once you get a feel for the program shouldn't be an issue.

Can do AVI or WMV. AVI was the better of the two IMO, brighter, clearer. Of the AVI compressions I looked at, Cinepack seemed to give a nice clear recording with a small file size.

No cursor trail or click indicator?
Videos are date/time stamped & I saw no way to disable that?

Mouse actions are ... kind of hard to describe. Kind of disjointed, not exactly jerky, but more that a (mouse) highlight either shows or does not. It does not "flow", but is just "there".

All videos open in WMP regardless of default media player.
All screenshots open in IE regards of default picture viewer or browser.

I saw no difference in various WMV encoder options selected. WMV9-600 looked like WMV9-1000 looked like WM7-1200.

After messing around for a while, Mem Usage showed as 17 KB, VM Size 216 KB. Computer didn't seem to be responding properly like that, so I closed 1AV down.

Screenshots were not an interest, I took a couple, but don't really know what I was doing.

As mentioned, a number of files get put into \Windows\system32\ (registered or whatever, not sure).

The "Record" window is nice. Convenient way to access your files, including displaying sizes. That way you don't have to open the output directory in Explorer.

Window is realizable. Something about the icons leaves me cold.


#6, installation directory /can/ be selected, I did, XP SP3.


I generally don't care for programs that are not self-contained, like populating /system32/ in this case, or that register codecs (that may break other codecs - not that I know if this does or does not), so for my needs, I would likely skip this, but it is useable.

AS with #36 I had 1AV center from a prior giveaway which after a time turned into a trial version (I did NOT allow it to check for updates). Consequently, I will not, as of now, be installing/recommending any PCWinsoft products.

re #36: Check this thread out at the forums: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10061. Interesting. I think PCWinSoft should get that sorted out the next time they come around. A one-month trial is not what we bargained for.

(BTW, it seems this program checks registration at a separate location than the regular version app does.)

Installed fin, activated fine, but when it came to actually trying to run it all I got was a series of error messages., uninstalled fine.

Did not install properly on win xp sp3

did not work...and could not be uninstalled

I had to uninstall it using force software.

grrrrrrrr

#33,34 mike, CableCard PC tuners, which have only recently become readily available due to more reasonable licensing, will record anything your cablebox can (as long as it doesn't require two-way communication) on Win7. Naturally, most will be DRM'd. CableCard supports analog capture as well as digital recording, and it isn't recorded exactly as-is, since it's placed into a WTV container which contains other metadata and will generally be DRM'd to the Windows installation in this case. I don't know what cable service you have which doesn't have an HD DVR, those have been available for years. I have a good-quality DVR which can record to HDD, DVD, or DVD-RAM, and I don't see where its analog recordings are any better than a good-quality PC capture card, but Windows Media Center doesn't support aux inputs anyway. Little is said on the marketing side, but most PC tuner cards still support analog for analog cable (but CableCard tuners should be much higher quality). VideoReDo TV Suite supports some DVR-MS/WTV conversions (including CC) and some DVRs.

Logitech always has the best capture software for their own webcams. I have a 1080p HD Logitech C910, and their software does a great job of capturing HD video (and the C910 yields high frame rates under good lighting).

I'm also not impressed with this program. CamStudio has a much clearer capture. The problem I've had with Camstudio is on longer recordings it has crashed on my and I lose the recording. I'm hoping this app will do better.

I didn't know where else to report this ..

Last time the same company offered Screen Camera and 1AV center .. i found both extremely useful ...downloaded and installed correctly, after a few months however both turned into an evaluation version at the same time. every time i open either it says trial version has expired, eventhough i activated correctly and i got them from GOTD several months ago.

I just wanted to point this out, in case there's something you guys missed that makes it convert to trail again. and I hope you re-offer screen camera and 1-AV center soon.

FWIW, even the very expensive Camtasia ver 7 will not record audio with the video unless -
1) you use the .camrec proprietary format, and then have to 'render' that huge file to get a common output format such as .avi
2) you use a patch cord from Line Out (or Audio Out) to the Line In jack.
The second option is practical (I use it on HP Pavillion desktop with vista) but it ties up the Line In jack permanently.

Do appreciate Mike's (#20) explanation of why this problem occurs.

1AVCapture, appears to install but will not run??? I am using WIN7 w Firefox & ran the activate after running setup???

Ran a quick capture test after successfully installing and running on a XP SP3 system. Capture 17 sec of 640x480 AVI format from a logitech webcam. Stored at 211 MB; that's 12MB/sec, or 720MB per minute! That's a HUGE file size. The program does seem to do what it says it does. This one is a keeper; I have another program to compress the file size anyway. Thanks GOTD.

It does not work on win7 ultimate, also it does not work on win7 premium and messed up the drivers previously used on real tech digital 64 bits audio,
To much hustle to fiddle around with the settings.
Uninstalled it and had to roll back the previous settings, otherwise will render your audio useless since it overwrites your current drivers with and old version not compatible with my present settings and equipment.

I did use the previous offering of this product and I made a suggestion which I was told would be included in the next version. Hopefully they have included it but since I will not be installing this, I won't know. The suggestion was that users be offered a choice of clearing the list without deleting the recordings from the hard drive.

I do recall having trouble getting audio recorded. Even though my desktop recording is set to stereo mix in the Windows control panel, some apps do not detect it. In my case I have to make sure that the defaults are set in the C-Media control panel.

Installed on W7 Pro 64 bit.

Errors on startup re location of ini files.
Needs write permission on folders in installation folder - not
best practice. Ran as administrator.
Test case failed to capture audio from screen region in web browser.

Uninstalled.

Why Portable? BECAUSE OF THE REGISTRY. Every time you INSTALL software, you are weighing down and bloating your system (making your PC churn and churn and churn over time). Don't forget that when you boot up, your PC loads that registry and, depending on what is installed, will be how long it takes to load. Then, after that, you have just used a lot of valuable resources/memory that maybe you just won't use for awhile. Maybe a software has installed a 'service'. Well, that baby is running, but you are not using it - duh, another resource hogging your system.

I try as often as I can, to ONLY USE PORTABLE APPLICATIONS. It just makes sense!!!! Do NOT overload your computer with useless installable apps. Go to portablefreeware.com or portableapps.com to see what is available as an alternative to this or any other software offered here. Do this first before deciding to download and install freebies and other SW. Also, you will always want to have REVO Uninstaller (free and portable) handy just in case you want to UNINSTALL frivolous or useless apps to free your PC up. THINK ABOUT YOUR SYSTEM and the damage you are doing to it by installing all this software. If you must, partition it off using 2 systems. Use 1 to test sofware, as I do, and the other to just surf or play media. Everytime you uninstall software, using the installed sw's uninstall feature, you will almost always leave behind garbage of some kind, which will not help your system. USE REVO UNINSTALLER (I use the PRO version, but it is a bit slower than the freebie) to uninstall all your software. First, it uses the installed software's uninstaller to remove the program. Then, REVO goes into your registry and removes any trace of the Software. Then, it goes out to your hard drive and cleans up any related stuff there. It is the best thing out there to clean up your system.

Software companies should offer a PAID Portable version of their software, if they can. That is how they will make more money. If it is good enough, people like me, WILL BUY IT, as I did with REVO Pro and other portables. I almost always DONATE TO THE AUTHOR if I really like their software and you should too! Support those programmers that you like who spend many many hours offering you free software that may solve a particular need you have for your PC. It's the right thing to do!

I already use 1avcapture in my machine only thing is not pick up sound from webcam or site and I have to use my microphone to pick up from speaker that is not suppose to be and pick up the other sound in background besides the computer. It is not pick up internet sound.
Even I set the options in 1avcapture won't work at all.

Well, as a powerful audio and video capture tool that enables users to easily capture, record and broadcast. Until now, i haven't found a good video capture for my job(need to capture a lot of videos), this one helps me a lot. Btw, after capturing the videos, i have to get total video converter from www.mac-videoconverter.com to convert the video formats. So if 1AVCapture can provide more conversion function, it'll be so good for our staff.

I never liked this program, even the previous version was not to my liking :Firstly the GUI is really not to aappealling, and the program is really buggy even in m new system:(after installing all the Critical Updates and Dotnet Framework) and clicking the required button did the job but it wasn't very easy to find the pictures,,,
i removed it the instant the program showed it bugginess. Sorry but i would say GAOtD team not to promote this program until the developer do not improve this utility. A simple Irfan View is better imo...

Its a thumbs down for me,,,,,,

@ 15

The reason so many people ask about the portability of the software here is that in the case of a system re-install the programs will be lost if this isn't an option.

In answer to post #1 there are various means of making most applications portable,even if they're not natively so.The easiest way is to use an Application Virtualization utility,I find that the free Cameyo works very well in most cases.

http://www.cameyo.com/

To give it a quick try I decided to record a bit of the radio program I was listening to to MP3 format. After about 10 mins trying to find it intuitively then 15 mins reading the help I could find no way to do it so I settled for Audio I can hear to WMA. I could hear the radio really clear. Playing back the recording was distorted. Maybe the radio guys put in something to stop you recording them?

I had just messed up the registration of the GOTD screen camera and needed something else to record screen video and audio... Camstudio doesn't work on my win 7 pc so here's hoping that this does... Thanks GOTD

I like the functionality of the PCWinSoft products, but the installs are a bit messy using very old code and installing global codecs. I find their products easy-to-use and quite flexible, and they do a good job of determining my available video hardware.

#6, Peter B, you're one of the people who rushes to get out criticism without even bothering to look at the product. 1AVCapture is so easy-to-use, I don't bother with the Help. The tooltips are on the status bar. The settings can be a bit scattered, but there are only three main ones: global options (gear button), record source settings (wrench symbol on profile button-bar near top), and record settings (wrench symbol on record button-bar at bottom). The record source settings also lets you select a window with simple drag-and-drop, and frame rate. There are hotkeys if you don't want to stop from the tray icon. If you don't see anything in your recordings, your codecs are probably messed up, use a self-contained media player like VLC Media Player.

One problem that I have is 1AVCapture is old code and doesn't support Vista+ features, so I can't get the audio which normally goes to my Logitech G35 USB headset (stereo mix doesn't work in this situation).

This is one of the programs that, last time it was offered, it killed itself and suddenly became unregistered after I clearly registered it.

We should not tolerate that from GAOTD - it doesn't happen often, but when it shows you registered, you follow the read me, then it does that, it's fraud. I actually bought a program on GAOTD that also kills itself after I paid real dollars for it. The company sends me a new key when it does, but it's too little, too late. :(

#1 - Portable ? Why ? Use a notebook/netbook then you have it portable.

The wish of portable software comes more often here and I wonder what the reason is...

Todays software is among those there is producing large files, so you need a lot of space to use it. If the software is portable then you still have to put the large files somewhere, right ? And that somewhere need to have a fast access, unless you want to record the files on the extern computer and then move it to the portable unit and then to your main computer for editing, so the software will give you tree times more work hours.

Prog is extremely easy to use. If you need to record audio, you just need to go into the wizard (see demo's on developer's website) and select microphone as audio input. If you do this you do have to avoid external sounds of course. If you want 'internal' sound you need to feed speaker output into Line-in. Also you might want to disable any windows sounds that are turned on. I recorded an on-line TV show on my not very fast Core2-duo on Win7/64 with no visible drop in frame rate (I set it to 30fps) and sound was perfectly in sync.

I am getting an error when trying to change the storage root folder. It says Run 1AVCapture as admin to change this option. I am running as Admin, please fix this error.

Audio line problem, press cancel, and error loop happened. (kill it with Task Manager).
Ashampoo Snap is better.

Sounds like some here are experimenting kinda loosely. If you think it'll help, here is the User Manual:


http://www.pcwinsoft.com/1AVCapture/user_guide/

Answer to #5.

When you install it creates a profile. If you do not have the Mix set correct,it will not set the profile at install correct. You have to recreate the profile.

Initial review. Compared to Camtasia it's about the same for screen/video capture. Compared to Cam Studio, it's also about the same for screen/video capture. The issue seems to be price point for what you are getting. If you have other video editing software (lightworks beta) and all you are looking for is the capture, then Camtasia comes off your list (it's overkill just for capture) and you can download this and test it to compare to Cam Studio. YMMV as to which you feel will better meet your needs.

I notice there's only 1 Profile listed "Record entire desktop or a region of it without audio into AVI and WMV". The rest from 2-19 are not set. Is that right?

previous version offered was 1.7.6
this one is 1.9.0

WEll I can tell you the registration is smooth and easy, and the interface likewise. All very clear and well laid out in a numbered menu of choices that bring up different windows. Thanks GOTD & PCWinsoft.

Win XP SP 3 installed and registered OK, except the installer package is wrong.

The set up , after confirming the language selection does not give you the option to install where you want it , only in C progams/1AV capture.

It says click back button if you want to review or change any settings, yet there is no back button .

There is no mouse over on any of the symbols to tell you what they do ( which is a sign of things to come) .

To select a portion of the screen , I go to audio/ video and select.

There is no audio/ video on the top bar .

So now we look through the help file.

Go to tools menue and try the Record wizard , gives you an option of video source ( like Web cam ) which is good, accept I want to try recording a selection of the screen , yet it only gives the whole screen , not manual selection.

So we try settings , actions, record ... nope still cant find it.

So try the record button , select window record ..... at last there is a region box, tick ! click ok .

Left click mouse to start selected area and drag, but nothing happens!

Having ticked the box for selection, you then have to click " select" then it lets you drag a box with the mouse .

Click OK

So now we click record then start record and nothing appears on the screen to say the region you are recording .

Prog disappears, call back up from the task bar , and to look for stop recording and there is none , it is greyed out and an avi has appeared .

So double click that and it plays a blank white screen .No luck yet then!

Notice there is a red record button at the bottom of the prog. That at last looks familiar , click that. Again no stop option ( greyed out ) . another avi appears, click that plays again a white screen and has failed to record.

The sign of a good prog, is that it just works . You should not have to need to delve into a help file. I get the impression that it will be a good prog if you can be bothered to waste time and treat it as a game or crossword ... you might get there in the end. And I have not even delved into their profiles yet!

Installed well.
Went to record... Stereo Mix is selected as default device (win 7 home premium - Realtek High Def Audio), but it only allows record without sound. Any solution?