Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-27 Thread Stroller
On 26 June 2011, at 19:54, Mick wrote: ... ffmpeg -f x11grab -s xga -r 25 -i :0.0 -aspect 4:3 /tmp/out.mpg but the result is rather blurred as you can see in the attached screenshot, when I play it with mplayer. ... Try passing -sameq WOW! Exceptional improvement in a single stroke!

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 Jun 2011 12:08:17 Stroller wrote: On 26 June 2011, at 19:54, Mick wrote: Try passing -sameq WOW! Exceptional improvement in a single stroke! Thanks! :) Why is it that ffmpeg degrades the quality with default settings? What does it assume that the setting is? (sorry

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-27 Thread Leonardo Guilherme
2011/6/27 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com On Monday 27 Jun 2011 12:08:17 Stroller wrote: On 26 June 2011, at 19:54, Mick wrote: Try passing -sameq WOW! Exceptional improvement in a single stroke! Thanks! :) Why is it that ffmpeg degrades the quality with default settings?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-27 Thread Mick
On Monday 27 Jun 2011 15:14:28 Leonardo Guilherme wrote: This link was very helpful to me, maybe it can be to you: http://verb3k.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/how-to-do-proper-screencasts-on-linu x/ This is excellent info. Just what I was looking for, with a lot of detailed explanation and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-26 Thread David Abbott
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I was trying to record my desktop using: ffmpeg -f x11grab -s xga -r 25 -i :0.0 -aspect 4:3 /tmp/out.mpg but the result is rather blurred as you can see in the attached screenshot, when I play it with mplayer.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sunday, June 26 at 18:28 (+0100), Mick said: Hi All, I was trying to record my desktop using: ffmpeg -f x11grab -s xga -r 25 -i :0.0 -aspect 4:3 /tmp/out.mpg but the result is rather blurred as you can see in the attached screenshot, when I play it with mplayer. Is there some

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-26 Thread Mick
On Sunday 26 Jun 2011 19:09:40 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sunday, June 26 at 18:28 (+0100), Mick said: Hi All, I was trying to record my desktop using: ffmpeg -f x11grab -s xga -r 25 -i :0.0 -aspect 4:3 /tmp/out.mpg but the result is rather blurred as you can see in the attached