What good free programs are there to capture/record audio and video on a PC?

There are some very good free ones...

BB FlashBack Express - http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBack_FreePlayer... - good screen video capture program. Captures to AVI and SWF formats. The problem with this one is it puts a halo around the screen cursor which cannot be removed.

Expression Encoder - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx... - An advanced audio/video-encoding and live-broadcasting application. A huge program but the video capture is great. Captures to WMV format. The free version is good enough for most things but only captures 10 minute segments. The full version is $600 but it is a very good program. There are also less expensive versions of it which aren't anywhere near that - http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Purch...

Screen to Video - http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html - great screen video capture program. Can capture screens to AVI, SWF, FLA and WMV formats. My favorite free recorder.

Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ - A tutorial and presentation creation software. The screen capture is great. Captures to SWF format.

The most common free one is CamStudio - http://camstudio.org/ - but I stopped using it some time ago after I found it could not capture subtle gradients and changes some screen colors.

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