Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie
El día Wednesday, March 01, 2006 a las 10:17:11AM +0100, Svein Halvor Halvorsen escribió: > On 2/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of > > FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create > > a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file? > > You could go via vnc. It can save vnc-sessions to special vnc-files, > which you later could convert to an avi, mpg, swf, whatever using e.g > transcode. Both are in ports. > > Svein Halvor Hello, Just to record this and maybe for the help of others looking for the same in the future: I followed the hints about 'vnc2swf' and installed from the ports: /usr/ports/net/tightvnc /usr/ports/net/vnc2swf There is nearly nothing todo or to configure, just do (if you want to have all on one system): - launch your desktop (mine is KDE) - create some other user which session you later want to capture - open a xterm and 'su' to that user: 'su - joana' - as 'joana' start now the VNC X-Server: $ vncserver :1 it will ask your for a password which is later used to connect to this X-Server and which is stored forever in a file; - but for now kill the VNC X-Server again with: $ vncserver -kill :1 - in the HOME of 'joana' you now have the file /home/joana/.vnc/xstartup which was created by the 1st launch of 'vncserver' and which you want to modify the same way like any .xinitrc file, mine says: $ cat /home/joana/.vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh exec startkde - boot up the VNC X-Server again which now comes up with KDE desktop as well (per default it comes up with 'twm' and 'xterm' which does not look so nice :-)) - from your own KDE (or whatever) connect to 'joana' desktop with $ vnc2swf joana.swf :1 type in the password stored with the VNC X-Server and you will get 'joana' desktop in a big window on your desktop; the tool 'vnc2swf' acts like a normal VNC viewer, but pressing key F9 will start the capturing into the file 'joana.swf' move it later over to a webspace and play it with your browser Konqueror, Firefox or whatever... really nice tool! matthias -- Matthias Apitz / Sisis Informationssysteme GmbH ein Tochterunternehmen der OCLC PICA B.V. Leiden (NL) D-82041 Oberhaching, Gruenwalder Weg 28g Fon: +49 89 / 61308-351, Fax: -399, Mobile +49 170 4527211 http://www.sisis.de/~guru/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El día Wednesday, March 01, 2006 a las 11:13:19AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng escribió: On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 11:49 +, freebsd wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file? There is an application called wink: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php There's also one called xvidcap. captures screenshots and then uses ffmpeg to put them as a movie. Thanks for all hints. I gave xvidcap (from the ports) a try and in general it is able to capture the desktop and make a mpeg (...) movie on the fly. But even for capturing 800x600 with only 5 frames per second it runs in 'missing frames' sometimes and my notebook is *very* fast. :-(( matthias I had the same problem when recording a demonstration and ended up using vnc2swf instead (records a swf animation). I couldn't get xvidcap to work with anything but really small windows, which was useless since I was trying to demo a web application. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie
On 2/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of > FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create > a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file? You could go via vnc. It can save vnc-sessions to special vnc-files, which you later could convert to an avi, mpg, swf, whatever using e.g transcode. Both are in ports. Svein Halvor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie
El día Wednesday, March 01, 2006 a las 03:24:31PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng escribió: > On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 07:29 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > El día Wednesday, March 01, 2006 a las 11:13:19AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng > > escribió: > > > There's also one called xvidcap. captures screenshots and then uses > > > ffmpeg to put them as a movie. > > > > Thanks for all hints. I gave xvidcap (from the ports) a try and in > > general it is able to capture the desktop and make a mpeg (...) movie > > on the fly. But even for capturing 800x600 with only 5 frames per > > second it runs in 'missing frames' sometimes and my notebook is > > *very* fast. :-(( > > That's odd. I gave it try previously, it ran fine on mine. Granted I > only tried it on a very small screen size. (~320x240??) It was a capture > of a SWF file which I wanted to show as an avi. It generated tons of > files though and it really gave my HD a running around. I've looked around in the faq's and forums and they all have that problem. They only hints are: - compile ffmpeg with -O5 (per default it is -O2); this does not helped much; - lower the screen size - lower the bits per pixel to 8 - lower the frames per second someone claimed that it should work fine with 1024x768, 8bpp, 10fps; when I have more time I will try 8bpp too; > > PS : why is it that this list To's the replies directly to the person > answering and cc's the list instead of To'ing the list only?? I use 'mutt' and a r)eply would send the answer to you only, while a g)roup-reply send a Cc: to the list; matthias -- Matthias Apitz / Sisis Informationssysteme GmbH ein Tochterunternehmen der OCLC PICA B.V. Leiden (NL) D-82041 Oberhaching, Gruenwalder Weg 28g Fon: +49 89 / 61308-351, Fax: -399, Mobile +49 170 4527211 http://www.sisis.de/~guru/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 07:29 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > El día Wednesday, March 01, 2006 a las 11:13:19AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng escribió: > > There's also one called xvidcap. captures screenshots and then uses > > ffmpeg to put them as a movie. > > Thanks for all hints. I gave xvidcap (from the ports) a try and in > general it is able to capture the desktop and make a mpeg (...) movie > on the fly. But even for capturing 800x600 with only 5 frames per > second it runs in 'missing frames' sometimes and my notebook is > *very* fast. :-(( That's odd. I gave it try previously, it ran fine on mine. Granted I only tried it on a very small screen size. (~320x240??) It was a capture of a SWF file which I wanted to show as an avi. It generated tons of files though and it really gave my HD a running around. PS : why is it that this list To's the replies directly to the person answering and cc's the list instead of To'ing the list only?? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie
El día Wednesday, March 01, 2006 a las 11:13:19AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng escribió: > On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 11:49 +, freebsd wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of > > > FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create > > > a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file? > > > There is an application called wink: > > http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php > > There's also one called xvidcap. captures screenshots and then uses > ffmpeg to put them as a movie. Thanks for all hints. I gave xvidcap (from the ports) a try and in general it is able to capture the desktop and make a mpeg (...) movie on the fly. But even for capturing 800x600 with only 5 frames per second it runs in 'missing frames' sometimes and my notebook is *very* fast. :-(( matthias -- Matthias Apitz / Sisis Informationssysteme GmbH ein Tochterunternehmen der OCLC PICA B.V. Leiden (NL) D-82041 Oberhaching, Gruenwalder Weg 28g Fon: +49 89 / 61308-351, Fax: -399, Mobile +49 170 4527211 http://www.sisis.de/~guru/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 11:49 +, freebsd wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of > > FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create > > a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file? > There is an application called wink: > http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php There's also one called xvidcap. captures screenshots and then uses ffmpeg to put them as a movie. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:42:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of > FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create > a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file? > > I've looked through /usr/ports/multimedia but did not see any tool > which could do this. For example this: net/vnc2swf Vnc2swf is a recording tool for VNC. It records VNC sessions and generates a Flash movie file (SWF). It can be used as an X11 recorder or a Windows desktop recorder. I remember, that I have seen other applications in ports, when I "surfed" ports tree. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie
Sorry, I forgot to cc this mail to the list and only send the answer to Matthias. > > Hi, > > Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of > FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create > a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file? > > I've looked through /usr/ports/multimedia but did not see any tool > which could do this. > > Thx > > matthias > -- > Matthias Apitz / Sisis Informationssysteme GmbH > ein Tochterunternehmen der OCLC PICA B.V. Leiden (NL) > D-82041 Oberhaching, Gruenwalder Weg 28g > Fon: +49 89 / 61308-351, Fax: -399, Mobile +49 170 4527211 > http://www.sisis.de/~guru/ > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > For sure it exists! :) Look in sysutils for xvidcap http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/sysutils/xvidcap.html -- Regards, Ivan. - Fin du message transféré - ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file? I've looked through /usr/ports/multimedia but did not see any tool which could do this. Thx matthias There is an application called wink: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php But it doesnt look like it has made it to the ports yet. The download site has links for linux versions, perhaps there may be someone working on a port? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie
Hi, Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file? I've looked through /usr/ports/multimedia but did not see any tool which could do this. Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz / Sisis Informationssysteme GmbH ein Tochterunternehmen der OCLC PICA B.V. Leiden (NL) D-82041 Oberhaching, Gruenwalder Weg 28g Fon: +49 89 / 61308-351, Fax: -399, Mobile +49 170 4527211 http://www.sisis.de/~guru/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
