Re:xorg/ImageMagick/mencoder hack for scrncap to x
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 23, 2006 12:58 AM
Ooops corrected version xvidcap was one of the best I've seen for this but it isn't well maintained and doesn't currently work for me ffmpeg mutated too much. I've gotten some mileage out of something like:
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Re:xorg/ImageMagick/mencoder hack for scrncap to x
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 23, 2006 12:58 AMxvidcap was one of the best I've seen for this but it isn't well maintained and doesn't currently work for me ffmpeg mutated too much. I've gotten some mileage out of something like:
xwinid=`xwininfo|grep "Window id:"|awk '{print $4}'`
while [ 1=1 ]
do
nowtime=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S%N`
xwd -id $xwinid |gzip -1 > screencap.$nowtime.xwd.gz
done
gunzip *.xwd.gz
mogrify -format jpg *.xwd
mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=6 -o amovie.xvid -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=2400 #-oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128g *.xwd
A bit of a hassle post processing to convert the frames to a movie but i get about 3-5fps on a AMD-64 3100
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