EchoCapture

EchoCapture is a command-line application allowing you to capture your screen at an interval time, with configurations of your choice, supported on Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Windows 7 has not been tested, but it might probably work.

Requirements

.NET Desktop Runtime 5.x.x, is required to run the application. Download Here

Basic Configuration

Set save folder location

The default save location of capture screen is found at %localappdata%\EchoCapture. Below is an example on how to change the save folder to C:\Games\Screenshots.

.setting folder "C:\Games\Screenshots"

Set capture screen interval

The default interval is 10s (equivalent to 10000ms). Below is an example on how to change the capture screen interval.

Note: 1000ms = 1s

.setting interval 40000

Display configuration

Below show the configuration that you are using and the presets configuration.

.information

Capturing Screen

Begin screen capture

Below start capturing your screen at the interval you set.

.task start

Stop screen capture

Below end the capture screen task. Note: Closing the application will also end the task.

.task stop

Image Configuration

General image setting

These settings are applied to each capture capture.

Set image type

The capture screen can either be in png or jpeg. Below is an example on how to set the image type to png.

Click Here to find the difference and select what fits you.

.imageSetting imageType png

Set image-rescaling

For image-rescaling, you need first to enable it as shown below.

.imageSetting rescaling true

Then you specify the rescaling resolution you desire, as below. The rescaling resolution consists of Width x Height.

.imageSetting rescalingResolution 1920 1080

Now each capture screen will be rescale to the rescaling resolution specified. This can also be disabled, which is by default.

Image Presets

There are three image presets available:

• high
• standard
• low

Selecting image preset

The default preset is standard. You can select any preset as shown below.

.imageSetting preset high

Customising image preset

Whenever you are customising an image preset, any changes made will be applied to the current chosen preset.

There are only two changes that can be made:

• Pixel format
• Image quality - only affect jpeg image-type.

Changing pixel format

You can change the pixel format for your capture screen, as shown below.

.imageSetting format Format48bppRgb

There are a bunch of pixel format available:

• Format16bppRgb555
• Format16bppRgb565
• Format24bppRgb
• Format32bppArgb
• Format32bppPArgb
• Format32bppRgb

Click here for more information about these pixel format.

Changing image quality (only jpeg)

This will only affect jpeg image-type capture screen. The image quality ranges from 0-100 and 100 being with most details. You can change to whatever you want as shown below.

.imageSetting jpgQuality 95

Troubleshooting

Capture screen are empty/black?

Try changing the pixel format.

No capture screen are saved?

Try changing the save folder location to somewhere your user has permission.