Nsryjdtyk

I'm currently trying to make a screen recorder in C#, and so far it works but the problem is that something as simple as a 20second video will take about 1GB of space. I have it setup so a timer continuously takes screenshots with this method:

void takeScreenshot()

        {

            Rectangle bounds = Screen.FromControl(this).Bounds;

            using (Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(bounds.Width, bounds.Height))

            {

                using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bitmap))

                {

                    //Add screen to bitmap:

                    g.CopyFromScreen(new Point(bounds.Left, bounds.Top), Point.Empty, bounds.Size);

                }

                //Create and save screenshot:

                string name = path + "//screenshot-" + fileCount + ".jpeg";

                bitmap.Save(name, ImageFormat.Jpeg);

                inputImageSequence.Add(name);

                fileCount++;



                //Dispose of bitmap:

                bitmap.Dispose();

            }

        }

And then it stores those pictures in a temporary folder in the D:// drive, and then when it's done it takes all the pictures and creates an AVI video out of them like this:

//Set bounds of video to screen size:

            Rectangle bounds = Screen.FromControl(this).Bounds;

            int width = bounds.Width;

            int height = bounds.Height;



            var framRate = 5;



            using (var vFWriter = new VideoFileWriter())

            {

                //Create new video file:

                vFWriter.Open(outputPath+"//video.avi", width, height, framRate, VideoCodec.Raw);



                //Make each screenshot into a video frame:

                foreach (var imageLocation in inputImageSequence)

                {

                    Bitmap imageFrame = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(imageLocation) as Bitmap;

                    vFWriter.WriteVideoFrame(imageFrame);

                    imageFrame.Dispose();

                }

                vFWriter.Close();

            }

            //Delete the screenshots and temporary folder:

            DeletePath(path);

Any help on reducing the inefficiency of this is appreciated, I'm fairly new to this kind of programming.