Am Freitag, 11. Juli 2003 16:39 schrieben Sie: Amen! Thanks a lot!
but in the way vnc realises to capture the display I would like to be able to do it. nice week-end james > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:06:22AM +0200, james amen atayi wrote: > > Hallo! > > > > Is it possible to directly read the video card output and save it into a > > file as a screen shot? I have to capture for a long time the display. > > Doing it making screen shots is not a good solution. That why I'm trying > > to find out how to capture the video card output. In other way, how can I > > record the screen as a movie file without making screen shots? > > > > thank for your help > > OK, this is messy and only an outline of what to do, but I think I have a > couple ways for you to solve your problem. > > On a Windows box: > > 1) Install an X windows implementation such as X-Win32 (the one I use) > or Cygwin. > 2) Obtain one of many Windows utilities to make a movie out of screen > activity (I have no direct experience with such packages -- I hear > there are many such as gifgifgif and Camtasia). > of the package he uses is not in right now). > 3) Set up the security on your Windows-box X server so your XFree86 box > can access the X server. You likely just have to put the IP of the > XFree86 box into some security dialog. > > On the XFree86 box where you'd like to do the video capture: > > 4) Reset the DISPLAY environment variable to your Windows box IP with > > :0 for the display number (or whatever it takes to redirect the > : windows > > to your Windows box and start your XFree86 application. > > The biggest issue I think you'll have is running a window manager and > keeping it from interfering with the appearance of your application. > > Here's the alternate (probably better) solution... > > On a Windows box: > > 1) Obtain a VNC client for Windows. > 2) Obtain a Windows screen capture movie program (same as #2 above). > > On your XFree86 box: > > 3) Install VNC server and VNC client. > 4) Start a VNC server with :1 as the display. > 5) Start your application with :1 as the display. > 6) Start the VNC client using :1 as the display -- go full screen. > [At this point you should be able to do whatever you would on > your XFree86 box and your VNC client will display the activity. > It should look normal to you (not crucial, but reassuring). > > On the Windows box (suggested order of events): > > 7) Start your screen capture utility. > 8) Start your VNC client using the XFree86 IP address and display :1 > then go full screen. > 9) Do whatever work you'd like to do on the XFree86 box via the VNC > client on your Windows box. When you're done just stop the screen > capture utility. You naturally have to edit the captured result > to drop whatever you don't want at the start. > > Please accept the above as concepts. I have tinkered around with trying > to capture XFree86 activity on Redhat 7.3 and did set up a VNC client on > Windows/NT (full screen) so I could see what was happening on the XFree86 > box. I never took the next step of recording the activity, I simply made > a recommendation to a gentleman who wanted to go to the next step. > > Good luck! > Joel Breazeale > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
