Re: capturing X to video
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:22:47 -0800, "Karsten M. Self"
<kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>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.
Could you describe more precisely what you mean by "video"? Would a
graphics card with TV out connected to a VCR do? Or do you mean
something more software-based that might need a really big hard disk?
Pigeon
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