What is Dxtory?
Dxtory is a movie capture tool capable of recording DirextX and OpenGL applications. By now, you're probably wondering "why is this any better than FRAPS?". I'll tell you why!
Dxtory is capable of optionally recording to multiple hard-drives. This is important because most framerate drops when recording is due to the bottleneck of HDD write speed. Dxtory resolves this by writing to several hard drives and then pieceing the segments back together into an AVI when you've completed the recording.
Dxtory can record multiple audio streams, this is very useful for recording a Let's Play series if you have a headset that is recognised as a seperate sound card. This is extremely useful for volume equalisation as when imported into a movie editing program like Sony Vegas, two audio streams will appear: One for the game and one for your microphones audio.
Dxtory allows you to record games using any codec you like! This allows you to record straight to MP4 (this is really slow) or use a faster codec like Ut. (will be explained later)
Dxtory allows you to record to a file like FRAPS, however it also allows you to record to a DirectShow device. This basically means that when you start recording with Dxtory, it outputs the video to a webcam device. This makes it easy to livestream your favourite game to your friends.
Dxtory can utilise multiple-GPUs and processors with multiple cores for enhanced performance.
Dxtory doesn't split AVIs at every 4GB like FRAPS so it's easier to edit!
Dxtory has profiles for different games, this means you can record with different codecs, separate crop sizes, varying framerates depending on the process.
Dxtory allows you to add processes to an ignore list which means that you won't see the framerate monitor hooked into that process, this is useful for D3D/OGL accelerated programs like After Effects that you don't want Dxtory to appear in.
Sounds great, huh? Well, there are also a couple of downsides.
It's a bit more expensive (£29 vs £24 for FRAPS) and you can't do the whole "hold-F9-mode" that FRAPS has that records a buffer.