From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 23 15:16:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF05716A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:16:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lilzmailso01.liwest.at (lilzmailso01.liwest.at [212.33.55.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8559343D46 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:16:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from cm248-230.liwest.at ([81.10.248.230]) by lilzmailso01.liwest.at with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1CAVKN-0000qo-6R; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:16:11 +0200 From: Daniela To: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:18:09 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200409222120.53637.dgw@liwest.at> <200409230059.17641.4711@chello.at> In-Reply-To: <200409230059.17641.4711@chello.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409231718.09864.dgw@liwest.at> Subject: Re: Screen recording utility X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dgw@liwest.at List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:16:12 -0000 On Wednesday 22 September 2004 22:58, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Wednesday 22 September 2004 23:20, Daniela wrote: > > I'm looking for a tool to record everything that can be seen on a given X > > display. Ideally, it should have support for limiting recording to a > > single window, but that's not strictly necessary. About four years ago I > > used Camtasia on Windoze for this, and I need something that produces a > > similar result, preferably a neat small command line tool. > > graphics/scrot is a commandline utility, which worked fine for me. > > If you in the need to record and replay sessions (ie. for presentations), > you can do this via net/vnc2swf. As the portname says, this is limited to > vnc-sessions and does recording in swf-"format". The recorded swf-movies > can be viewed with realplayer or any other flash capable viewer. Needles to > say, that this solution eats up some more ressources :) 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.