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What's the best webcam recorder for PC Windows 11/10? Any recommendations
If you are not afraid of using the command line, you can actually make a lightweight and easy-to-use webcam recorder for PC Windows 11. I have tried the following method myself and it is quite good.
Use fffmppeg (command line tool)
Although you need to manually download fffmppeg, it is open source and cannot be considered a "third-party GUI tool". After installing it, just enter in the command line:
bash
fffmppeg -f dshow -i video="your camera name" -t 00:05:00 output.mp4This command can record a 5-minute video from the camera and save it as output.mp4. You can also add -f audio to record the microphone, and get the picture + sound together, which is completely competent for a command line version of webcam recorder for PC Windows 11.
Although there is a little technical threshold, it has a high degree of freedom, no watermarks in the recording, and can also be processed in batches. As long as you are familiar with it, fffmppeg is the most powerful command line solution for webcam recorder for PC Windows 11/10 that I have ever used!