desktop capture

[Thomas Milne]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Thomas Milne wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thomas Milne wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thomas Milne wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> You're using Ubuntu, no? Why not just install it from Debian
>>>>>> Multimedia?
>>>>>>
>>>>> silly question, how do fetch from Debian Multimedia?
>>>>>
>>>> Go to http://debian-multimedia.org/ and add the appropriate repo to
>>>> your sources, either in sources.list or in Synaptic.
>>>>
>>> Thanks again, got it built from source with most of the codecs and thanks
>>> for pointing out --enable-x11grab, I missed that 1st time around, so went
>>> through all the config option slowly 2nd time around =)
>>>
>>
>> If that was your first time building ffmpeg, you did better than me.
>> First time I tried it took hours. Mostly because I was using Mandriva
>> and had to run ./configure about 400 times to figure out all the
>> needed libraries :-\
>>
>> Hope it works for you, ffmpeg has never let me down.
>>
>
> I had to do a few aptitude search/install,
> i think it was less than a dozen for dev (header files)
> (aptitude search is a life-saver)
>
> I got the screen capture working, but how do i get a bitmap sharpness? like
> true avi output in Windows? Right now, I am getting really poor lossey
> output, I increased the bitrate => -b 100000
>
> any suggestions, am I missing something? thanks!
>

It's been awhile, and ffmpeg can be a moving target, but I think what
you want is -vcodec xvid. Not sure if 100000 is a valid bitrate for
that, though. Also, you can set size with -s, and framerate with -r.

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