[PLUG] video capture

Carl Karsten carl at personnelware.com
Fri Oct 23 23:31:11 UTC 2009


On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:16 PM, glen e. p. ropella
<gepr at tempusdictum.com> wrote:
> Thus spake Carl Karsten circa 09-10-23 12:17 PM:
>> ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1024x768 -r 29 -i :0.0 -target ntsc-dv -y foo.dv
>
> That works VERY well!  Thanks.  Now I just need a way to (automatically)
> determine what to fill in for the "-s" parameter... xwininfo works well
> enough for manual records; but I'm not enthused about parsing that
> output.  Surely there's an X windows query accessible to a bash script ...
>
>> You can also use vnc with one of these:
>> http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/
>> http://www.sodan.org/~penny/vncrec/
>>
>> I have tried to do the vnc thing, but didn't put much effort into it,
>> got bored, moved on.  I would like to get back to that someday, so let
>> me know if you get it to work.
>
> I doubt I'll pursue that.  But if I do, I'll send you my results.
>

vnc might be the answer to capturing just a window. I kinda remember
something about 'share desktop' or 'share window'


-- 
Carl K



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