Hi there, If anyone on the list wants to make fgfs movies for youtube or similar you might be interested in the latest svn code for ffmpeg. It now includes a new video device - x11grab. That grabs direct from Xorg/Xfree, as the name suggests, and can encode into any format ffmpeg encodes to in real- time. Previously software like vnc2swf and the like were too much of a hit on the CPU, but ffmpeg is much much more efficient than those. I've also tried istanbul and another capture software called recordMyDesktop, but both those hit the CPU too much for the capture to be smooth.
I just tested a PAL resolution capture of an fgfs session, running fgfs at the same PAL resolution with visual quality up to the max...on a 2GHz Athlon64 3000+, with a 256MB NV6800GS the capture is nearly flawless, with only a small hit to the normal framerate in fgfs...very nice! When I'm satisfied my scenery looks good enough I'll get a youtube account and throw some fgfs videos up... :-) Kind regards, Chris Wilkinson, Brisbane, Australia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
