A Wallpaper on Desktop Brings Bad Quality

Some users complain that the quality of movie is not good, and send us samples. We find that it is the reason is same, that they have not disabled their desktop wallpaper before recording.

Our recorder based on an optimized compressing algorithm will check the contents of recording. If a photo, image is find on most area, it will adaptively choose a lossy compression way to process it instead of lossless for buttons, icons and menu… So, the quality drops.

Wallpaper is not necessary but costs more file size when illustrating something to others. We recommend disabling it before recording for 2 reasons. First, the quality improves a lot. Second, the smaller output file.

Here is a comparison between use wallpaper and not.

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Left, with wallpaper, 130K                Right, without wallpaper, 20K

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2 Comments

  1. Doss says:

    Can an option in the Step 1 be added to hide all desktop icons/wallpapers for the newbies like me before start Recording?

  2. Chen says:

    A good suggestion, we may add a warning on start.

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