desktop capture

[Rajinder Yadav]

john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:10:23 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: desktop capture
>> From: devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
>> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>>
>> I like ksnapshot, I think it's cool, however I wanted to capture
>> video, like a screen cast =)
>>
>> http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rails_blog_2.mov
>>
> That was interesting. What did you end up using to do the capturing?

As I just told Thomas that was not my screen-cast. I am currently using 
ffmpeg with good results to capture the screen or regions. The only 
thing is that ffmpeg is command-line, and you have to google info to 
figure out what parameters work best. It take some trial and error, but 
I think I got something I can live with.

There were some GUI screen capture app I tired, but they sucked, either 
they hung, gave poor quality or had ugly blocky artifacts suddenly pop up.

I ended up building ffmpeg from source, wasn't that hard, took a little 
effort to download missing dependencies. But if you're on 
kubuntu/debian, a quick 'aptitude search / install' keeps you rolling 
along. Only a few codecs I didn't find so I just removed them from my 
configure param.

To give you an idea about quality, here is a (video only) sample of what 
I was able to create

http://devmentor.org/ruby/play.html

I need to figure out how to make the mp4 file stream while it 
downloading, right now you have to wait for it to complete downloading 
before you can watch it!


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Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav

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