xvideocapture

Xvideocapture is a small software application designed specifically for helping you record your desktop activity to videos.

The program is portable so you can copy it on portable devices to carry it with you all the time. You may run it without administrative privileges. Accessing the GUI requires only opening the executable file because there’s no setup included in the process.

What’s more, it does not store entries in your Windows registry so you can uninstall it using a quick deletion task. Actually, the settings files are saved on the storage device.

Xvideocapture reveals a minimalist layout that offers support for only a few options. The utility reveals the time directly in the main window. A help manual cannot be found in the package but you can decode the configuration settings on your own because they are highly intuitive.

The application gives you the possibility to choose between three recording profiles, namely full screen, custom window, or a user-defined region of the desktop. You are allowed to start or stop the recording task via the utility’s interface (there’s no support for hotkeys).

The videos are automatically saved to a preset folder where Xvideocapture is stored. By default, they are exported to AVI file format, this one being the only output format supported by the program.

Tests have shown that Xvideocapture carries out a task quickly and delivers very good output results. It is not a resource hog so you do not have to worry that it hampers your computer’s performance. On the downside, it is not able to generate recordings with different filenames so it overwrites the last recorded clip.

The final verdict is that Xvideocapture offers nothing more than a simplistic approach for helping you capture essential parts of your project to AVI files, and is suitable especially for less experienced users.