hardware based screen capture card?

[Thuleman]

What I would like to do is to capture an application, that has a WindowsGUI and an embedded D3D window, at 1280x1024. I have tried Camtasia, but it won't show the D3D window. I have tried FRAPS, but it will only show the D3D window.

The S-Video out is not really an option because I don't want to be limited to NTSC resolution.

Is there some sort of hardware solution that will capture everything that happens on the desktop and output it to AVI/MPG?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have.
Price isn't that much of a concern, if it works well then I can spend big bucks on it as it is for work.

Must work on Windows.

 

[spine]

I doubt you can do it in software because of the way it all works. The only way to do a high res capture would be to capture the signal going out to the monitor. Something of that nature would be expensive if it exists.

Then again, I just managed to do it with hypercam:

http://www.willmaltby.co.uk/stuff/hypercam_capture.wmv

I captured the file in realtime using an Mjpeg codec. I then converted the file to wmv with windows media encoder.

Google hypercam, it's free, though that version has a small 'unregistered' logo in the top left. Not really a problem, and can be edited out with video editing software.

 

[Thuleman]

I really don't mind expensive, as long as it works.
At this point I would even settle for NTSC resolution. I just want better quality than hooking a DV camcorder up to my S-Video out.

 

[Thuleman]

Just to report back, HyperCam is quite nice indeed.
With sufficiently fast processors and fast storage its performance is acceptable.
Thank you for pointing it out to me, much appreciated.