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From: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:09:10AM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> I'm still hoping to get by with some hacks, but you might be
> right. It's a pity and almost a surprise there's no widely
> available text-based video codec. Maybe I just need to try my
> luck on mplayer-related mailing lists.

I see there are at least Ogg Writ [1] which is in early
development stages and Camtasia TechSmith Screen Capture Codec
[2] which is a closed-source Windows-only thing. I hope there are
more I don't know about yet.

[1] http://wiki.xiph.org/OggWrit
[2] http://www.techsmith.com/codecs/tscc/default.asp