Since I already have a Giveaway of Tuneskit Screen Recorder from October and a Joyoshare Screen Recorder from December, is there any advantage to downloading and installing Bytescout Screen Capturing in the next 3 hours? Does Bytescout have the feature where you can set the start and end time for screen recording or just set how long you want it to record before automatically stopping the recording? That for me is very useful so I don't have to sit and monitor a 2 hour 25 minute training video to make sure I stop recording at the right time. Thanks for your feedback.

Can't get it to work under Vista SP2+ 32bit under both remote desktop or on the local display... soft crashes if I press the Settings button, activates business license (which has no functional difference to freeware edition which is normal for almost all bytescount SDK demo programs.)
On trying to capture using any and all of the presented options results in a crash after the popup telling me how to finish capturing.
Same errors as previous version given away a while back.
Under windows 10 it works as described and CAN capture to either WMV or AVI. The way you select WHICH video file and encoder format is used is by making sure that TAB in settings is the one selected when you hit the "OK" button to commit the settings. But with VERY restricted built in codec choices.

No directvideo or directsound codec support only old fashioned video for windows interface seems to be used which is why choices are so primitive.

It also requires .NET 2.0 to be installed on the system or a backwards compatible higher version.

Because of the limited range of codecs I would like for them to have included a lossless codec, either uncompressed or one of the readily avaiable LZW based ones so we do not have to have multiple passes of differently lossy video re-encoding just to get the final video file we want. AND add a single frame Capture to an image file so it does screen capture at least and not just screen recording which the name does not imply what it actually does as others have mentioned.
I just recorded a moderatly long 30 minutes youtube page and the resultant AVI was 3.7Gbytes in size and the AVI file produced had a broken index which VLC offered to rebuild then play, I responded Yes and the video was significantly out of sync with the sound and part way through the video the video stream paused and did not proceed further stuck at the frame it stopped at and the sound track continued on until the end of the video.

I need a recorder that will record audio as I have a program that reads text but there is no way to capture it to something like mp3, so I hope this program is able to record this audio.

how do you lose the water mark?

Thanks, not for me though. btw Couple free related ones today described & links at ghacks.net

Automatic Screenshotter is a free tool that captures the screen content at regular intervals (free)
Automatic Screenshotter is a freeware tool from Donationcoder. It is also available in a portable version that you can carry around on a flash drive.
Auto Screen Capture is a similar tool, if you want more options and scheduled screenshots.
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/01/16/automatic-screenshotter-is-a-free-tool-that-captures-the-screen-content-at-regular-intervals/?_m=3n%2e0038%2e2416%2ezh0ao07m8k%2e2iyi

Just wanted to add my 2 cents worth. I've been wanting a screen recorder, that would record the closed captions on my YouTube videos. None of the free software pick up the closed captions at all. Thanks to this wonderful freebie, now I can save my videos, WITH the closed captions, and sound as well, although so far, I have not been terribly pleased with the sound quality. I probably have to make adjustments on my end, so that is not a bad mark against the program. I'm running Win10, on a wonderful old laptop. This program is EXACTLY what I have been dreaming of, as it is easy to use, right away, with no day wasted on studying how it works. YAYYY !! Two thumbs up from me !

Records in AVI or WMV format, does not appear to record the system audio, just either a silent recording or a microphone. There are better, more versatile screen recorders around. Uninstalled.

It records in wmv format only. Not the end of the world, as there are free converters available to convert it to a more universal format, but it's another step to be taken. No mention of the duration of the license.
Also, coudn't get the download link in Waterfox (with cookies enabled), had to switch to FF to get this.

After all this discussion — Al's comment seems the simplest which makes it clear — which does this actually do? Take a capture (screen shot) of a still, or record the video (i.e. copy it into a file)? I am confused after reading the comments.

Downloaded and registered with no problems, as far as I can tell it does exactly as it promises .The recording quality was good, and the sound excellent. Be sure to turn on the stereo mix to record from the speakers, ( sound input)I am well pleased with this excellent software, many thanks

The name is a bit odd. It infers it is screen capture but; when installing; it said I had an older version which seemed to refer to a ByteScout screen recording app that I had. It then appeared to uninstall something then install with another icon called ByteScout screen capturing. Now both icons start a screen recording app.
Screen capture in my opinion has a specific definition as in the app you get with say "DuckCapture" or "PicPick" this is not a screen capture it is a screen record, I will change the name on the start up icon.
If it was once correctly named as ByteScout screen recording then why on earth would you change the name to something misleading?

Does it have an option to mute the microphone and only record the audio from my speakers?

That would allow me to not pickup background noise.

I said "option" because sometimes I want to record a narration on top of the video.