From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 22 13:58:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC77916A41B for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:58:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679BF13C461 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:58:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so2427392rvb for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:58:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=ViIH8Bqr3dMzM5YajTjMab5+TatNitAa63zPlLZJTTY=; b=pPpQEA5xBcghu7NolvADIK/NC74ikEH4Y91+bBWJ+32XZyOpo2v7aVfyfiIVay4H8S38eOwNQRZs+PJhZUsHmPX58z999Z2vdhPLC7CWaSiNe6VWwgr8CB2Azfq1yCeZu5Q3d30X32SDYX2u42aG4ZRnJdT7Bce+ZhoM56jUvpM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=GKic7qig9YS9x/HRyu8LkEEr5WZAQP36P7hiffOukmoKJYI5VzZDbegxYOR85+nNn6/Uu0zA5QNdZxsHIv6IHOgGC1wuplwT9dihM7kiFyN7IJ6ENMBxExAlWebiUV3/aeGCoiK8uAPQmsgBiqzk4iaJJANAhKDfADnMhkKy7TU= Received: by 10.140.251.1 with SMTP id y1mr3923934rvh.1195739485879; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from saraswathy.susmita.org ( [59.92.40.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f13sm455550rvb.2007.11.22.05.51.21 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:51:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by saraswathy.susmita.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 7E2CC143E9; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:21:14 +0530 (IST) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:21:14 +0530 From: Girish Venkatachalam To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071122135114.GB32640@saraswathy.susmita.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org References: <20071121182639.GA66812@amilo.cenkes.org> <1d3ed48c0711211529t2244d2b5y8e256907426cff50@mail.gmail.com> <20071122084448.GB66812@amilo.cenkes.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071122084448.GB66812@amilo.cenkes.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Cc: Subject: Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:58:07 -0000 On 11:44:49 Nov 22, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > There are basically two ways the subtitles are encoded: bitmap > and text. Both will require a full screen dump on every update. > Neither allow for colors (there are html hacks though). AFAIK, > there's no way to store activity in form of updates in subtitles. > Subtitles can be hard coded into the video with mencoder. The command line is straight forward. $ mencoder video.avi -sub subtitles.srt -o videosubtitles.avi -ovc lavc -oac copy > Moreover, even in case of bitmaps, subtitles are still utterly > unstandardized. Their look is very player-dependent. > Not a problem if you hard code them. > But the idea is cool, thanks! I might perform a few benchmarks > with mplayer when I have time. But your basic problem remains unsolved. mencoder can build a video from frames and you can mux the audio with mplex or some such thing. All this means a bit of effort. regards, Girish