From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 1 08:11:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 6571F16A420 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:11:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from guru@Sisis.de) Received: from hunter.Sisis.de (hunter.sisis.de [193.31.11.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6827B43D4C for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:11:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from guru@Sisis.de) Received: (from mail@localhost) by hunter.Sisis.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA25790; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:09:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@Sisis.de) From: guru@Sisis.de Received: from hermes.sisis.de(193.31.10.38) by hunter.Sisis.de via smap (V2.1) id xma025786; Wed, 1 Mar 06 09:09:00 +0100 Received: from rebelion.Sisis.de (rebelion.Sisis.de [193.31.10.34]) by hermes.sisis.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22345; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:11:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@Sisis.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by rebelion.Sisis.de (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k218BeuY001391; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:11:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@Sisis.de) X-Authentication-Warning: rebelion.Sisis.de: guru set sender to guru@Sisis.de using -f Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:11:40 +0100 To: Ow Mun Heng Message-ID: <20060301081140.GC1105@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> <1141197872.28549.3.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1141197872.28549.3.camel@neuromancer.home.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE (i386) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias.Apitz@Sisis.de List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:11:58 -0000 El día Wednesday, March 01, 2006 a las 03:24:31PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng escribió: > On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 07:29 +0100, guru@Sisis.de wrote: > > El día Wednesday, March 01, 2006 a las 11:13:19AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng escribió: > > > 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. :-(( > > That's odd. I gave it try previously, it ran fine on mine. Granted I > only tried it on a very small screen size. (~320x240??) It was a capture > of a SWF file which I wanted to show as an avi. It generated tons of > files though and it really gave my HD a running around. I've looked around in the faq's and forums and they all have that problem. They only hints are: - compile ffmpeg with -O5 (per default it is -O2); this does not helped much; - lower the screen size - lower the bits per pixel to 8 - lower the frames per second someone claimed that it should work fine with 1024x768, 8bpp, 10fps; when I have more time I will try 8bpp too; > > PS : why is it that this list To's the replies directly to the person > answering and cc's the list instead of To'ing the list only?? I use 'mutt' and a r)eply would send the answer to you only, while a g)roup-reply send a Cc: to the list; matthias -- Matthias Apitz / Sisis Informationssysteme GmbH ein Tochterunternehmen der OCLC PICA B.V. Leiden (NL) D-82041 Oberhaching, Gruenwalder Weg 28g Fon: +49 89 / 61308-351, Fax: -399, Mobile +49 170 4527211 http://www.sisis.de/~guru/