On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 05:06:46PM -0600, Scott Kokotovitch wrote: > VLC will capture your live desktop and stream it in the variety of > formats VLC supports. Open screen:// and you should get your desktop. > I've tested this before and it works fairly well. Could be faster, but > isn't horribly behind.
Saw this on commanlinefu (the site recently posted here (or sluug)). $ ffmpeg -f x11grab -s wxga -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq /tmp/out.mpg Capture video of a linux desktop http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/148/capture-video-of-a-linux-desktop > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wow. When I clicked on your links I got the .ogg file as data displayed in > >> another tab. I saved the tab and suddenly I had your file. > >> Now that's just Discovery Institute crazy. > > > > Noticed that, too. Don't have an explanation for why. > > > >> I use Istambul Desktop Session Recorder, but it too outputs in .ogg format. > >> I'd suggest opening it in (Pitivi ?) or some other video editor and > >> saving > >> it as an avi. Or maybe uploading it to You Tube where I think they > >> automatically convert your file to .flv format. The only problem I have > >> with Pitivi is that when create a video from a series of videos only Linux > >> users can view them.. For some reason Windows complains that there is > >> extraneous data in them and won't display them. > > > > Thanks. I'll try pitivi. > > > > I tried converting from ogg to avi with ffmpeg, editing with Avidemux, > > and then converting back to ogg. It worked, but the quality suffered. > > > >> I guess video one area that Ubuntu/Linux in general needs some help. > > > > Indeed. My hope for now is to just figure out one way that works and > > then get it working better over time. -- David Dooling http://www.politigenomics.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
