Weeny Free Video Recorder

Weeny Free Video Recorder is an approachable Windows utility that, as the name implies, allows you to capture desktop activity to file. It offers support only for WMV format.

Ad-supported application

Installing the tool does not take a long time. However, you should be careful when going through the wizard steps, since Weeny Free Video Recorder offers to download and install third-party apps that it does not need to work properly, unless you already have them. These offers can be declined, though.

Accessibility via the system tray

At startup, Weeny Free Video Recorder creates an icon in the system tray area for quick access, and also places a dock with buttons for capturing video on the upper part of the screen.

Capture footage in several methods

So, it is possible to grab the active or selected window, entire desktop, rectangle region, or camera. Hotkeys are supported for these actions, as well as for pausing, resuming and stopping the recording.

Configure program settings easily

You can change the default saving directory and file name pattern, limit the file size, set Weeny Free Video Recorder to run at every system startup until further notice, play sound and flash a window when recording, as well as select the source, preferred size and subtype when it comes to the video device.
Speaking of video, the video settings for the output files are configurable when it comes to the codec, fixed size, frames per second, quality and mouse cursor (include or exclude it), while audio properties may be edited in terms of audio device, channel mode and bit rate (alternatively, you can just disable the audio stream). All settings can be restored to default at any time.

Evaluation and conclusion

The tool is very light when it comes to system resources, using low CPU and memory. There were no kind of issues throughout our rests, since it did not hang, crash or pop up error messages. All in all, Weeny Free Video Recorder comes packed with settings to please first-time and experienced users alike.