.. -*- coding: utf-8; -*-

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 Screncast.

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.. contents::

   :local:

VLC.

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::

  $ cvlc screen:// --screen-mouse-image cursor.png --screen-fps=12 \

    --screen-width=1680 --screen-height=1050 --no-sout-audio --sout \

    "#transcode{venc=theora,quality:10,scale=0.75,fps=12}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ogg,dst=desktop.ogg}}}"

  $ cvlc screen:// --screen-fps=12 --screen-mouse-image=e:/home/.icon/cursor.png --no-sout-audio --sout \

    "#transcode{venc=x264,quality:100,scale=1,fps=12}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=mp4,dst=desktop.ogg}}}"

Available options:

``screen-caching <integer>``

  Time in milliseconds.

``screen-fps <integer>``

  Capture frames per second (0 default).

``screen-top <integer>``

  The top edge coordinate of the subscreen.

``screen-left <integer>``

  The left edge coordinate of the subscreen.

``screen-width <integer>``

  The width of the subscreen.

``screen-height <integer>``

  The height of the subscreen.

``screen-mouse-image <filename>``

  Mouse pointer image to use.

vnc2flv.

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In order to rrecord require VNC server running on host.

http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/vnc2flv/index.html

  home page

libav.

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::

  $ sudo apt-get install libav-tools

  $ avconv -f x11grab -s cif -r 25 -i :0.0 /tmp/out.mpg

  $ avconv -f x11grab -s cif -r 25 -i :0.0+10,20 /tmp/out.mpg

ffmpeg.

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Only video::

  $ ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 25 -s cif -i :0.0 out.mpg

  $ ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1024x768 -i :0.0 out.mpg

Video with audio::

  $ ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/audio -f x11grab -s cif -r 3 -ab 11 -i :0.0 out.mp4

Oprsions description:

* ``-r`` frames per second

* ``-s`` resolution

recordMyDesktop.

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::

  $ recordmydesktop --no-sound --windowid $(xwininfo | awk '/Window id:/ {print $4}')

Screenshort movies.

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Screenshort movie by mencoder.

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::

  $ mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=30 -o output.avi

Screenshort movie by ffmpeg.

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::

  mplayer -ao null -ss 0:0:33 -endpos 2 eagles.avi -vo jpeg:outdir=~/dir

  mplayer -ao null -ss 0:0:33 -endpos 2 eagles.avi -vo png:z=9:outdir=~/dir

Here:

 * ``-ss`` tells mplayer where you begin

 * ``-endpos`` tells mplayer where to stop (minutes)

 * ``z=9`` sets compression level

ImageMagic and shell script.

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::

  #!/bin/bash

  let iter=1

  while [ "$iter" -le "$stop" ]; do

    import $iter.png

    sleep 1

    let x+=1

  done

If you interesting in capturing specific window - by 'xwininfo' find,

intereesting your window id (hex value) and use command::

  import -window $windowid $iter.png

To quick view result run::

  $ cd $img_dir

  $ animate -delay 20 *.png

  ^C

To compound image together::

  $ convert -delay 20 *.png capture.mng  # license free, multi-image file format

  $ convert -delay 20 *.png capture.gif

You can add text to pictures before compound theirs::

  $ mogrify -fill yellow -draw 'Rectangle 10,10 150,30' -fill black -pointsize 14 \

     -draw 'text 15,25 "by http://example.com"' $iter.png

If screen capturing slow for you use MIFF file format.

Use root flag to capture all screen::

  $ import -window root $iter.png

http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/03/04/screen_capture_movies.html

  Making Screen-Capture Movies by Robert Bernier