From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 1 15:04:19 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 AC68E16A436 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 15:04:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from relay1.av-mx.com (relay1.av-mx.com [137.118.16.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A0BC43D70 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 15:03:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) X-Virus-Scan-Time: 0 Received: from [137.118.16.55] (HELO mx3.av-mx.com) by relay1.av-mx.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 187477350 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:03:50 -0500 Received: (qmail 20731 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2006 15:03:50 -0000 Received: from dsl29042.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.116.42) by mx3.av-mx.com with SMTP; 1 Mar 2006 15:03:50 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.116.42 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl29042.ywave.com Message-ID: <4405B7D4.1060307@ywave.com> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:03:48 -0800 From: Micah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060113) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias.Apitz@Sisis.de References: <20060228114219.GA7338@rebelion.Sisis.de> <440438BE.9070304@redry.net> <1141182799.28393.20.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <20060301062944.GA2107@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20060301062944.GA2107@rebelion.Sisis.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:04:19 -0000 guru@Sisis.de wrote: > El día Wednesday, March 01, 2006 a las 11:13:19AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng escribió: > >> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 11:49 +0000, freebsd wrote: >>> guru@Sisis.de wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of >>>> FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create >>>> a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file? >>> There is an application called wink: >>> http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php >> 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. :-(( > > matthias I had the same problem when recording a demonstration and ended up using vnc2swf instead (records a swf animation). I couldn't get xvidcap to work with anything but really small windows, which was useless since I was trying to demo a web application. HTH, Micah