Read Me
Screencast makes it easy to produce high-quality screencasts on Linux with support for JACK Audio and updates in full detail. It is indispensable for recording video tutorials, video logs, and other computer activity, and works especially well with audio applications such as Pd, Ardour, and chuck. It is multi-threaded and produces smooth results with no jittery sound or loss of fine detail in screen updates.
=== home page ===
http://wiki.nosdigitais.teia.org.br/Screencast
=== installation: ===
$ chmod +x ./makeVideo.sh
=== usage ===
# Using PyGtk :::
$ python screencast.py
$ ./makeVideo.sh
# Or Using more bash and Imagemagick
$ python screencast2.py
$ ./makeVideo2.sh
=== notes ===
* it doesn't seem to work past 4 fps
* capturing the actual mouse pointer seems unecessarily hard and we need to bypass pygtk and use X
libs directly, see read_cursor_image.py
=== links ===
* video tutorial (portuguese): http://vimeo.com/39220636