visualpython-users

[Visualpython-users] Re: CamStudio: may prefer 2.0 over 2.1

[Donald_Gaffney <ga...@ph...>]

> CamStudio is a good freeware program for capturing to avi format on 
> Windows (download at 
> http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Reviews/r1075.html); the help menu 
> doesn't seem to work, but you can get help from the start menu entry for 
> CamStudio. For capturing VPython animations you probably want to choose 
> the menu option "Region" in which case when you start recording it waits 
> for you to draw a capture rectangle.
> 
> Bruce Sherwood

The link mentioned above didn't work for me, so I did a bit of searching
regarding this app and downloaded the 2.0 installer from

http://www.swftools.com/tool-details.php?tool=8162413051

This installer is smaller than the 2.1 installer and lacks the adware
burden of 2.1. A good discussion regarding CamStudio may be found
at http://groups.google.com/, by searching for "CamStudio 2.0 - Last 
Freeware/Open Source version" and locating the thread in alt.comp.freeware
from this past April (2004).

The 2.0 version was GPL'd by RenderSoft, but it is unclear whether the
GPL was the license they had really intended to use. The license files 
bundled with the source zip file read more like a BSD+advert clause 
license, but a GPL screen shot from the former RenderSoft website shows 
that  they distributed the code as GPL.

In any case, the installer from above is freely redistributable.

In any case, is there a capacity to render into a bitmap file set planned
for Vpython? It seems to me I put together some code a long time ago
to generate avi files from an OpenGL anim under win32, but just rendering
to files and using something like ImageMagick would work on most platforms. 

Don

Re: [Visualpython-users] Re: CamStudio: may prefer 2.0 over 2.1

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 10:13, Donald_Gaffney wrote:

> In any case, is there a capacity to render into a bitmap file set planned
> for Vpython? It seems to me I put together some code a long time ago
> to generate avi files from an OpenGL anim under win32, but just rendering
> to files and using something like ImageMagick would work on most platforms. 
> 
> Don

The idea has occurred to us.  The main issue is that VPython's rendering
is purely asynchronous with respect to the rate of animation.  To make a
movie correctly would require some kind of synchronous rendering mode
(perhaps tied into rate() somehow), which is not planned at this time.

-Jonathan