on Wed, Nov 20, 2002, J?rg Johannes (liste_joerg@gmx.de) wrote:
> Hello Martin
>
> >is it possible to capture all that's going on on my X server to video
> >somehow? I imagine it can't be hard thanks to X's modular
> >architecture. Does anyone have a pointer or so?
> >
> <no better ideas so far, so why not throw in this one...>
> There are various programs that can capture the X desktop (screenshot).
> If you could use such a program in a script that makes a screenshot
> every second (or longer or shorter), you could assemble these images to
> a mpeg (or some other movie format, you might have followed the thread
> about this topic the last few days).
> Note: I have not taken screenshots before, so sory I can't tell you what
> screenshooter to use.
I'd suggest 'import' from imagemagick:
while import -window root screenshot.$( date +'%Y-%m-%d.%H%M%S).png;
do sleep 1;
done
Though that's not quite realtime capture. I'd think a hardware device is
what you'd need for what you're describing, Martin.
Peace.
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