Re: [Visualpython-users] Making a Movie in Visual Python

[William C. W. <ww...@la...>]

Jaap,

I'm not sure what you mean by "out of date"...the link opens fine for me
again today when I retried it...

The information, though, is almost two years old.  If we dig a little
deeper, I see that this method required patching ffmpeg to create an X11
grabber.  Now, as you might expect, grabbing from X11 is a native part of
the latest releases, so just go straight to the documentation for how you
might pull it off:

http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC4

Is this useful?  (I have just started to work with ffmpeg for other
purposes, but I'm not a frequent Linux user, so my insights are limited).

Bill

> William C. Ward wrote:
>> Hi Lornezo,
>>
>> Your best bet might be to forgo a Python-based solution and use
>> something
>> like ffmpeg to encode screen activity directly while the window is
>> active.
>> (ffmpeg is an open source command line encoding application that can
>> also
>> do video capture).  You should be able to find a number of references,
>> for
>> example:
>>
>> http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/06/08/how-to-create-a-screencast-in-ubuntu/
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Bill Ward
>>
>
> This link seems to be out of date! The idea is promising but an actual
> link
> will be useful.
>
> Jaap
>
>