

The FourCC "H264" is similarly generic and widely recognized. "AVC1" is a generic FourCC many decoders should recognize video streams flagged with it could have been created by many different encoders, including hardware encoder chips (e.g. The FourCC "VSSH" was first used by a H.264 codec made by Vangard Software Solutions it is obsolete today, you should not want to flag your videos with it anymore.

Not all available decoders will recognize all FourCCs, even though they all describe more or less the same kind of content "more or less", because some decoders only support a small part of the whole specification of a video format. There are two kinds of FourCCs in an AVI header describing the video stream it contains (one rather unimportant describing the specific encoder software which created the video, which is probably the one you want to set up here, and another very important which describes the decoder which should be used to decode the video). I will give it a shot! About Fraps: I heard that the video quality is very good, but the video file size is so damm huge.! So I dont think that Fraps would be so good again.A "FourCC" (4 character code) is just a flag in the AVI container that allows a decoder to recognize the content and know it is responsible for decoding such a video stream. Let me know how you get on and sorry I couldn't be more helpful with the paid programs. If it doesn't work for you then all I can say is a paid program is probably better, I can recommend fraps but as for the others above i don't know enough so wouldn't be comfortable trying to advise you there.

I would say that bearing mind that it's free, you might as well download it and give it a try. From my experience it never looked quite right on MC (a bit muddy) but that may be compression due to CPU load e.t.c.

So I just tested it on full specs Civ 5 (not quite GTA5 I know) which I usually have capped at 60fps and it dropped to 40, but I have a Q6600 4-core 2.4GHZ and it gave me a CPU usage warning in the corner, so depending on your specs it may be fine.
