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

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 Screncast.

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.. contents::

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.

Wink.

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Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons,

titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.

  http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

                home page

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

ffmpeg.

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::

  $ ffmpeg -f x11grab -s cif -i :0.0 capture.mpg

Recordmydesktop.

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Screenshort movies.

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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