WM Capture 10 recording hints 10106

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Using the VB - Audio Virtual Cable

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WM Capture 10 offers a series of advanced features that enable audio and video routing such that one video can be recorded without being visible with muted or no perceived sound while another is played with fully enabled audio and video. These features allow recording hidden windows (Background mode), setting up a second browser (for example, the Firefox browser) and setting up Windows audio system. The second browser must have its graphic acceleration disabled (see WM Capture, Settings, Useful tips).

Below is a Windows 11 example showing the Volume mixer where the Chrome browser is set to output its audio to the System Default while the Firefox  browser outputs its audio to the VB-Cable port. The set up instructions shown here are the same for Windows 10.

Set up the VB-Audio Virtual Cable as second audio driver (playback and record)

Open vb-audio.com and/or download the file VBCABLE_Driver_Pack43.zip. Unzip the downloaded file then follow installation instructions. After rebooting VB-Cable is installed and ready. Right click the speaker icon on your taskbar then click Open volume mixer.

Note that the VB-Audio may require a donation. You can select the amount you would like to donate (suggested $10).

In the Volume mixer, under System, click the Output device arrow as shown below. Windows installed audio drivers including the VB-Cable are shown. Select your Windows default playback device (usually called Speaker).





Now you begin opening the apps you’ll be using for playback and record. You should see these apps populating the Volume mixer. You will need WM Capture and two different browsers (in this example Google Chrome and Firefox).

 

1.     Open the Chrome browser and play a video with sound (this tells Windows, Chrome uses audio). Stop playing video

2.     Open WM Capture in Background mode, click the Volume bar (optional) (this tells Windows that WM Capture uses audio)

3.     Open the Firefox browser (some browsers need to play a video with sound; play then stop playing)

4.     Right click the speaker icon on taskbar, click Volume mixer.

5.     Click the arrow under Firefox and select Cable input, then click WM Capture arrow and  select Cable input

In the Firefox browser, open the video you want to record. (optional use Picture in Picture to PIP the recording video image). In WM Capture follow the recording procedure (Mark video, click Record, click Hide (optional)). Video image is captured from the Firefox browser (hidden), the audio is captured from the VB-Cable.

While video is recording in Firefox, play anything you want in the Chrome browser.

Set up using USB or Bluetooth headphones as second audio driver

Same as above, instead of VB-Cable use a USB or a Bluetooth audio playback device driver.

This approach can only be used with Windows 10 and 11. Below are a few more hints:

1.     Any web browser can be used as the playback and recording browser. The only requirement is that the recording browser must have disabled the graphics acceleration (which is necessary anyway for recording streaming movies online)

2.     Background recording mode must be used in WM Capture otherwise the recording window cannot be hidden

3.     While recording one video at the same time playing another video your CPU may be overloaded especially for large video windows. (Windows 11 does better than Windows 10 on this). Watch your total CPU loading shown in WM Capture.

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