desktop capture

[Rajinder Yadav]

Thomas Milne wrote:
> 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.
> 

I will have to tinker around with ffmpeg later, I'm happy I am able to grab my 
desktop now, thanks again!

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Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav

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