Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:21:14 +0530 From: Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: efficient terminal/console screencasting Message-ID: <20071122135114.GB32640@saraswathy.susmita.org> In-Reply-To: <20071122084448.GB66812@amilo.cenkes.org> References: <20071121182639.GA66812@amilo.cenkes.org> <1d3ed48c0711211529t2244d2b5y8e256907426cff50@mail.gmail.com> <20071122084448.GB66812@amilo.cenkes.org>
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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
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