VLC is awesome. So is PSTools. Combining their magic, you can do cunning things like remotely capture a video of a display in an h264-encoded mp4 file. Like this:
psexec -i -h -u DOMAIN\admin-user \\REMOTEHOST "c:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -I dummy screen:/// :screen-fps=50.000000 :screen-caching=300 :sout=#transcode{venc=x264{bframes=0,nocabac,ref=1,nf,level=13,crf=24,partitions=none},vcodec=h264,fps=50,vb=3000,width=1920,height=1080,acodec=none}:duplicate{dst=std{mux=mp4,access=file,dst=c:\output.mp4}} --verbose=0 --dummy-quiet