Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:03:48 -0800 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: Matthias.Apitz@Sisis.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie Message-ID: <4405B7D4.1060307@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <20060301062944.GA2107@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20060228114219.GA7338@rebelion.Sisis.de> <440438BE.9070304@redry.net> <1141182799.28393.20.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <20060301062944.GA2107@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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guru@Sisis.de wrote: > El día Wednesday, March 01, 2006 a las 11:13:19AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng escribió: > >> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 11:49 +0000, freebsd wrote: >>> guru@Sisis.de wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of >>>> FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create >>>> a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file? >>> There is an application called wink: >>> http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php >> There's also one called xvidcap. captures screenshots and then uses >> ffmpeg to put them as a movie. > > Thanks for all hints. I gave xvidcap (from the ports) a try and in > general it is able to capture the desktop and make a mpeg (...) movie > on the fly. But even for capturing 800x600 with only 5 frames per > second it runs in 'missing frames' sometimes and my notebook is > *very* fast. :-(( > > matthias I had the same problem when recording a demonstration and ended up using vnc2swf instead (records a swf animation). I couldn't get xvidcap to work with anything but really small windows, which was useless since I was trying to demo a web application. HTH, Micah
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