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8. Recording Videos Recording Videos Using the Epiphan VGA2Ethernet user interface
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Setting Display Options for Recording Videos
Before recording videos, you should configure display settings.
To configure display settings from the Tools menu, select
Options and then select the Display tab.
Note: Most video codecs require setting the display format to
RGB 24 bits per pixel.
The following display options change how video files are
recorded.
For more information about display options, see “Configuring
Display Options” on page 56 .
Selecting a Windows Video Codec
The VGA2Ethernet user interface automatically finds all of the
video codecs installed on the video capture workstation. Unless
you have already installed a high-speed codec, most of the codecs
that the VGA2Ethernet user interface finds may be too slow or
have poor compression. If a codec is too slow, the video recording
frame rate may be too low to produce a good quality video
without compromising the performance of the video capture
workstation. If a video codec has poor compression, the recorded
*.avi files could become very large.
To view the codecs installed on the video capture
workstation
1 Start the Epiphan VGA2Ethernet user interface.
2 Select Options from the Tools menu.
Display
Format
Record video files with the same color depth as the
display format. Usually, you need to set the display
format to RGB 24 bits per pixel before recording
videos.
Limit
frame
rate to
Limit the frame rate at which videos are recorded. If
the limited frame rate is higher than the frame rate
of the VGA2Ethernet device videos are recorded at
the frame rate of the device.