From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 20 23:36:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 594FD16A486 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:36:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-unix@earthlink.net) Received: from pop-sarus.atl.sa.earthlink.net (pop-sarus.atl.sa.earthlink.net [207.69.195.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B0A143D55 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:36:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd-unix@earthlink.net) Received: from fl-71-54-28-212.dhcp.sprint-hsd.net ([71.54.28.212] helo=kt.weeble.com) by pop-sarus.atl.sa.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #10) id 1FWihe-0004FC-00; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:36:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:40:01 -0400 From: Randy Pratt To: "Kedar Damle" Message-Id: <20060420194001.07fb7838.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone thought of porting Wink to BSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:36:52 -0000 On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:32:10 +0530 "Kedar Damle" wrote: > Hey, > > I wanted to make a couple of screencast about FreeBSD to show to a couple of > my frnds and could not see Wink listed in the ports collection. Anyone > thought about it ? Is this is right mailing list I am sending this question > to ? > > Its currently at 2.0 for Window$ and 1.5 for x86 Linux. > http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ If you really want to use this and no one takes the interest to port it, the linux binary will run on FreeBSD. Just download the linux tarball: http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?lid=235 Move it into some work directory and untar: tar xvzf wink15.tar.gz Then, untar the data tarball: tar xvzf installdata.tar.gz Run Wink from the current directory: ./wink I do not suggest running any of the install scripts since they would probably fail and/or dump/overwrite files that you may have already. Just run ./wink from that local directory. I briefly tested for creating screenshots and then created a movie file. I couldn't play the Flash file since I don't have any of the plugins installed. I did not check to see what dependencies it really needed but I do have linux_base, gtk2 and possibly many others already installed that it might need to work. However, I was disappointed in the output format options. It seems to be limited to Flash, PDF and other proprietary formats which aren't very useful (for me). YMMV I would like to suggest that you look at sysutils/xvidcap as an alternative. It also includes a gtk2 version (gvidcap) and if I remember correctly, can produce mpeg format videos which are open source and playable on most any platform. I've not used this in a long time but perhaps it will suit your needs. HTH, Randy --