Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:56:54 +0900
> I am preparing a presentation and I'd love to be able to make a movie > out of a session at the computer, i.e. I'd like to capture the screen > repetitively and then be able to play it back as a movie.
In woody:
apt-cache search capture screen cgoban - Complete Go board scrot - command line screen capture utility
apt-cache show scrot [...] Description: command line screen capture utility scrot (SCReen shOT) is a simple commandline screen capture utility that uses imlib2 to grab and save images. Multiple image formats are supported through imlib2's dynamic saver modules.
maybe you could write a script to execute scrot at certain intervals, and then build a movie with some other utility (gimp?, some command line utility I don't remember now?). I haven't used scrot, so I don't know how it works.
Victor
you can also use "import" to capture either the screen or a single widow. gimp has screen cap facilities too
Blake Swadling
> Is there a ready solution for me?
Have a look at xvidcap, its what I use and its excellent! Debs for stable and testing/sid are available on this site http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/
Check out the instructional movies on the site to see how it works.
Roy Pluschke