[How to] How do I record a Session

I see people posting their session and was wondering, how can I record my sessions, for platter play or reference? I have terabytes of space I could store the games in, but do not know how to record them.

<a href="http://obsproject.com/" rel="nofollow">http://obsproject.com/</a>

Xsplit and OBS have worked for me. FRAPS caused me some grief and MSI Afterburner has its own weird problems. I use OBS now and simultaneously stream and record locally. If you record locally only for your own reference, you can set up OBS to not use CFS and set automatic keyframes and save a ton of space, although you'd have to re-encode to get it working on Youtube. Since most Roll20 is looking at a screen that doesn't move, you don't actually need that many keyframes. I once did a test one-hour recording with no keyframes at 1080p and the file was like 100MB. (Standard x264 recording is a little under 1GB/hour.)

I use Bandicam for this purpose <a href="http://www.bandicam.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bandicam.com/</a>

Cool Thank you all for the answers. I will have to test them and see what works best for me.

No linux tutorials then? I'm going to have to make my own, aren't I? Be patient, this is going to take a while.

rumleech said: No linux tutorials then? I'm going to have to make my own, aren't I? Be patient, this is going to take a while. Tweak VLC forever or grab simple screen recorder .

GM Mu said: Tweak VLC forever or grab simple screen recorder . Blimey, that was quick. Play and experiment for me, then. If I'm happy with how it works out then I'll knock up a tutorial just so I can show off.