-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Er, if anyone wants to see a sample of the output, I put up my first test capture.
http://grover.open2space.com/files/test.mpeg it seems a little faster than I remember doing things, but I think that's due to the 10 frames per second setting... Shawn Shawn wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. > > I tried out wink and Xvidcap. The Recordmydesktop just didn't seem too > friendly for my environment (though I may try this another time...) > > Out of the two I did try, wink doesn't seem to be suitable. While it > has a more intuitive (though overly crowded) interface, it still boils > down to static snapshots of the desktop/focus area then squish those > together in a presentation. I can do that with Ksnapshot and any > presentation software. What I am looking for is a video recording of my > actions, with the option of doing a voice over. > > Enter xvidcap. It fills the requirements, and it's video seems to be > good quality, and can be adjusted. It allows for a particular capture > rectangle to be specified (which may or may not represent the whole > screen). It's interface is a little odd, but easily figured out. I set > it to capture my screen, and it handled a windowed VMWare session just > fine. (not really required, but was curious how it would go...) > > Now, I guess I need to write some scripts (as in presentation scripts, > not coding scripts)... :). > > Shawn > > Tek Budda wrote: >>> > I'm looking for recommendations on decent screen capture programs to >>>> create a screen cast. (i.e. a video of what I'm working on). >>>> >>>> I've tried Istanbul, but it doesn't seem to work well with Kubuntu (the >>>> resulting video flashes a lot or is real blurry if any scaling is used.) >>>> >>>> I would prefer something that's nicely packaged for K/Ubuntu, but am >>>> willing to do manual installs if needed. >>> FOund this is last months Linux Format. >>> >>> Xvidcap: hsourceforge.net/projects/xvidcap >>> >>> "xvidcap is a screen capture enabling you to capture videos off your >>> X-Window desktop for illustration or documentation purposes. It is >>> intended to be a standards-based alternative to tools like Lotus ScreenCam." >>> >>> Captures video in a variety of formats as wella s audio and can work >>> from command line or a gui. The developer even provides a couple of >>> instructonal videos whihc i assume were captures with it. Couldn't see >>> any stuttering or anything. Available as a deb or or tar file. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> clug-talk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>> **Please remove these lines when replying >>> >>> _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF2S6pMia5XCIAQC8RAlCQAJ9668JLhLXxF4LSnzTnDyHnrraRJwCeIzEg yTNT4cLayewDyo8Z3VU4M8M= =GPmb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
