Fraps is great. I use it for stuff that doesn't have a self-recording feature. When you've defragged well, and have like 2ghz or more, or a dual core, it's real nice. As for the OMG HUEG VIDYA FIELS you can encode them with VirtualDub and ffdshow tryouts many encoders for a small file size. That's part of the life of video recording and if you don't like it, well you must be a fan of recording lossy on-the-fly encoding then (which would greatly slow down recording performance). I can't help you there.