Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:33:27 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Screen recording utility Message-ID: <200409262133.27744.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <200409251617.01032.4711@chello.at> References: <200409222120.53637.dgw@liwest.at> <200409231718.09864.dgw@liwest.at> <200409251617.01032.4711@chello.at>
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On Saturday 25 September 2004 14:16, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Thursday 23 September 2004 19:18, Daniela wrote: > > VNC is probably a bit too much overhead. > > There must be some device file where all the screen data goes to. If I > > knew the name of this file, I could write a program that reads from it, > > and then pipe the data through some encoder. That would be more than > > perfect, but I have no clue where to look for this information. > > Search vic sources for grabber-x11.cpp (vic can be configured to transmit a > live stream of a X11-root/single window via rtp, if i remember right). > Or have a look how grabbing works in scrot and ImageMagick: > Search imlib/imlib2 sources for "Imlib_create_image_from_drawable" or > ImageMagick soucres for "XImportImage". Thank you very much, that was really helpful. However, it seems that I can't go past X11 interfacing this time. So far I was doing mostly low level programming and had not much to do with libraries. Cheers, Daniela
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