How to record gameplay on WP7?

Question

I need to record my wp7 game gameplay like on Hot Apps from channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Hot-Apps/Hot-Apps-Minesweeper-Cheezia-Interior-Design-Talking-Alien-Zombie-Squish.

My current game is written on Silverlight, but I will have XNA games latter as well, so I need some solution which will work for both technologies. If there any free software? If yes is there any way to record video from real device, not emulator?

Answer 1

CamStudio will allow you to record video from your computer for free. This is probably the best solution, since I don't know of any way to record video from a Windows Phone on the phone itself. Though you could point a camera at the phone and record things that way.

Answer 2

Have you considered looking into integrating replays into your game instead?

I posted this question a while back on StackOverflow a while back which garnered some good replies.

Edit

Replays have many more secondary benefits that span from debugging and testing, to demoing, to supporting casting for esports (for a phone game, not a big deal, I know).

Answer 3

Fraps works really well for capturing the high frame rate in games