I found this an interesting app, if perhaps a bit buggy. Generally speaking, 32-bit video [& image editing] apps have an edge because of greater compatibility, in the case of video apps, with both plug-ins & codecs [COmpressor DECompresser – a video encoder/decoder]. Here, you’re locked into what AnyMP4 Screen Recorder provides, so that doesn’t matter that much. That’s Not to say that AnyMP4 Screen Recorder makes great use of being a 64-bit app – 64-bit Windows is just the most common nowadays.
Unlike most screen recording software [at least up until now], AnyMP4 Screen Recorder neither lets you select the codec to use, nor provides one. In a win7 64-bit VM, it used Windows basic encoding capabilities, saving the captured results that were stored in a temp folder to H.264 video. It has code to use Intel Quick Sync, Nvidia, & AMD hardware acceleration/encoding, though as far as I can tell, not the latest, though that may give them greater compatibility for their typical customers/users.
I tested AnyMP4 Screen Recorder in win10 Pro 64-bit on this rig, which has a Ryzen2 2700 CPU, X470 motherboard, 16 GB RAM, AMD RX 470 graphics card, and for this test, ran AnyMP4 Screen Recorder off the Windows drive, which is a garden variety 2.5” SSD, but set the app’s temporary & output folders to 2 separate NVMe SSDs because of their greater speed. [Maybe the biggest bottleneck to recording video is getting the data written to storage – 1080p video that’s barely compressed is highest quality, & takes the least CPU, but easily amounts to hundreds of GB, BUT, compressing the video so the amount of data is more manageable takes relatively huge amounts of CPU.] Then I opened Firefox & went to tntdrama[.]com, playing their clip from Pirates of the Caribbean full screen at 1080p. I then recorded 30 seconds worth at High, Highest, & Lossless H.264 settings, all at 30 fps. [That’s the most demanding task I think, as it takes a great deal more hardware resources than recording a low fps tutorial for instance.]
Bear in mind that just watching the video takes 26% CPU, 17% GPU, & 14% video card RAM, so maybe subtract that from the totals to get an approximation of the resources it took to record the video. The AMD graphics card maxed out at 100% GPU, though only 15% memory. The higher you go in cost, generally the better performance you’ll get doing something like this, but from a recording perspective, the lesser RAM use means potential cost savings because more, faster RAM ups the graphics card price. The CPU maxed at 74%, with fairly even max use recorded across all 16 cores. The High quality setting got video with a bit rate of ~5700 – it jumped to ~7000 Kb/S at Highest – Lossless [which really isn’t BTW] bumped it up into lower quality Blu-ray territory at 23 Mb/S. Once I managed to get some video recorded however, I had to close the app using Task Mgr. before I could do anything else with it – it would let me record more video, but wouldn’t let me access the settings or even close the program. I didn’t have that problem in the VM, so I assume it has something to do with their AMD-related code.
Installing AnyMP4 Screen Recorder is pretty straightforward – everything goes in the program’s folder, with the exception of the app shortcut(s) & a folder added to ProgramData. While I recorded a lot of Windows compatibility entries, installing the app itself caused a new registry key for the app & one for uninstall. There is no added audio driver, so if you do not have the option to record what you hear you might have to look elsewhere for a different app &/or add-on driver.
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