Record a Screen with a webcam

[Minaey]

Hi All,

 

for work I need to record some data and documents from a 1080p screen at a terminal and show it to me colleagues abroad. There is no chance to capture directly from this device as it does not have a broadband connection. Which webcam would you recommend to use to do so and is there anyone having experience with this?

 

I remember the old LTT Videos has recordings from screens before screen capture was a thing and I have to go back to this.

 

Thanks in Advance

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

4 minutes ago, Minaey said:

Hi All,

 

for work I need to record some data and documents from a 1080p screen at a terminal and show it to me colleagues abroad. There is no chance to capture directly from this device as it does not have a broadband connection. Which webcam would you recommend to use to do so and is there anyone having experience with this?

 

I remember the old LTT Videos has recordings from screens before screen capture was a thing and I have to go back to this.

 

Thanks in Advance

You might as well use your phone camera as webcams aren't that good quality. You have to spend a a lot, and I mean upwards to possibly 80 bucks to get a webcam of decent quality. In fact, using your phone has become one of the more popular ways of getting a good image for virtual meetings in the age of teleworking. 

https://www.wired.com/story/use-your-phone-as-webcam/

 

Using a DSLR camera as a webcam has also been popular.

[emosun]

why not just record the screen with something like bandicam and just usb the files off the machine and send those?

[WereCatf]

49 minutes ago, Minaey said:

for work I need to record some data and documents from a 1080p screen at a terminal and show it to me colleagues abroad. There is no chance to capture directly from this device as it does not have a broadband connection.

I don't understand this. What's having a broadband got to do with it? OBS, for example, can record to local files -- no Internet-connection needed at all.

[Minaey]

1 hour ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

You might as well use your phone camera as webcams aren't that good quality. You have to spend a a lot, and I mean upwards to possibly 80 bucks to get a webcam of decent quality. In fact, using your phone has become one of the more popular ways of getting a good image for virtual meetings in the age of teleworking. 

https://www.wired.com/story/use-your-phone-as-webcam/

 

Using a DSLR camera as a webcam has also been popular.

Thanks for the suggestion, I will have a look and try it with a phone. 

 

[Minaey]

45 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

I don't understand this. What's having a broadband got to do with it? OBS, for example, can record to local files -- no Internet-connection needed at all.

The terminal can not be accessed and has no ports, there is no possibility to install any software. So I am only trying to find out what would be the most economical way of recording and streaming whatever is shown on the screen.

[Minaey]

51 minutes ago, emosun said:

why not just record the screen with something like bandicam and just usb the files off the machine and send those?

I have to do it live as I have someone in a conference call that needs to see the data.

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, Minaey said:

The terminal can not be accessed and has no ports, there is no possibility to install any software. So I am only trying to find out what would be the most economical way of recording and streaming whatever is shown on the screen.

Ah, well, that explains it better. And there's no possibility of using e.g. one of those cheap, 17€ USB-based HDMI-capture-devices on eBay/Amazon/Aliexpress? If not, then I guess I agree with @BlueChinchillaEatingDorito

[mariushm]

A laptop and a usb vga capture card.

Use the phone's wireless hotspot to create an internet connection for the laptop,  connect the usb vga capture card into the laptop and the other end in the computer's vga output

Stream to a private Twitch / Youtube channel, or to that conferences' stream server (obs can upload to any compliant rtmp server)