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http://www.free-codecs.com/AMCap_download.htm

to download the Free AMCAP Video Capture Program.
AMCap v9.20
AMCap is a small yet fully functional video capture application compatible with Microsoft DirectShow. It is based on the sample AMCap from the Microsoft DirectX 9 SDK. AMCap supports still captures to BMP, JPEG and PNG formats and it remembers your Video Input, Video Standard and Video size settings from previous session. It has some nice features like multi-monitoring support, zooming, aspect ratio and interlacing features.
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AMCap is a small and effective piece of software and definitely worth trying.
Hope this will help. Bud