[gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Mick]

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What application can I use to capture a video sequence of events on my 
desktop?  I'd like to do stuff on an application and create a video of my 
mouse clicks and responses from the application.  Is there anything other than 
xvidcap which seems to be hard masked?
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Blackdream W]

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ffmpeg or recordmydesktop.

I think google is ur best friend.[?]

2010/7/5 Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

> What application can I use to capture a video sequence of events on my
> desktop?  I'd like to do stuff on an application and create a video of my
> mouse clicks and responses from the application.  Is there anything other
> than
> xvidcap which seems to be hard masked?
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Mick]

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On Sunday 04 July 2010 20:27:20 Blackdream W wrote:
> ffmpeg or recordmydesktop.
> 
> I think google is ur best friend.[?]

Thanks, I'll look further into ffmpeg in the first instance.

PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you 
should be searching.  I understand they are working hard on reading our 
thoughts.
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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you
> should be searching.  I understand they are working hard on reading our
> thoughts.
>    

+1

I like how folks that have the answer say to Google for it.  If you 
don't know what to tell Google to find, Google isn't worth $0.01 on the 
subject.

Now after you get the answer, Google is great.  :-)

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Blackdream W]

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Hmmm...  I don't think so,because "what question u have" =="what to tell
Google to find"

2010/7/5 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>

> Mick wrote:
>
>> PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you
>> should be searching.  I understand they are working hard on reading our
>> thoughts.
>>
>>
>
> +1
>
> I like how folks that have the answer say to Google for it.  If you don't
> know what to tell Google to find, Google isn't worth $0.01 on the subject.
>
> Now after you get the answer, Google is great.  :-)
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Dale]

Blackdream W wrote:
> Hmmm...  I don't think so,because "what question u have" =="what to 
> tell Google to find"
>

If you know what you are looking for is called.  Sometimes when I am 
looking for something, I don't know what the thing I am looking for is 
called.  You can't Google for a 'thing em a jig' and expect results.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Blackdream W]

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T_T I just want 2 say: .................

2010/7/5 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>

> Blackdream W wrote:
>
>> Hmmm...  I don't think so,because "what question u have" =="what to tell
>> Google to find"
>>
>>
> If you know what you are looking for is called.  Sometimes when I am
> looking for something, I don't know what the thing I am looking for is
> called.  You can't Google for a 'thing em a jig' and expect results.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>


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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[James]

Dale <rdalek1967 <at> gmail.com> writes:


> If you know what you are looking for is called.  Sometimes when I am 
> looking for something, I don't know what the thing I am looking for is 
> called.  You can't Google for a 'thing em a jig' and expect results.
 
I concur with Dale (&&Mick). He would not ask if he did not need
help. Sometimes folks forget (especially older guys like myself).
This thread jogs a memory for me, that I had found (stumble across)
a really cool package that does exactly what Mick is looking for....

Do you think I can remember the name from 6-12 months ago?
Hell, I might even have it installed on one of my workstations......
As we age, some of us loose the sharpness and recall of our
memories......

If you've seen the person on the list before and they ask for help, 
unless you know they are a *NOOB*/*BOOB* then why be so condescending?

Either help, or leave the thread alone, would be an excellent display
of good manners.... imho.

ps mick, I'll go trove my bookmarks and see if I can find the name
of that really cool package....


hth,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 05 July 2010 08:08:05 Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you
> > should be searching.  I understand they are working hard on reading our
> > thoughts.
> 
> +1
> 
> I like how folks that have the answer say to Google for it.  If you
> don't know what to tell Google to find, Google isn't worth $0.01 on the
> subject.
> 
> Now after you get the answer, Google is great.  :-)

Noooooooooooooooo, you don't get it.

You must google the question to get the search terms
Then you must google the search terms to get the answer

Two-step process!



-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Blackdream W]

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Aha,I think u r a funny guys[?]

2010/7/5 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>

> On Monday 05 July 2010 08:08:05 Dale wrote:
> > Mick wrote:
> > > PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which
> you
> > > should be searching.  I understand they are working hard on reading our
> > > thoughts.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > I like how folks that have the answer say to Google for it.  If you
> > don't know what to tell Google to find, Google isn't worth $0.01 on the
> > subject.
> >
> > Now after you get the answer, Google is great.  :-)
>
> Noooooooooooooooo, you don't get it.
>
> You must google the question to get the search terms
> Then you must google the search terms to get the answer
>
> Two-step process!
>
>
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Willie Wong]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:47:44PM +0800, Blackdream W wrote:
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For someone whose signature asks all posts to be in txt, what are you
doing sending so many GIFs to the mailing list?

W

-- 
Willie W. Wong                                     wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 05 July 2010 08:08:05 Dale wrote:
>    
>> Mick wrote:
>>      
>>> PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you
>>> should be searching.  I understand they are working hard on reading our
>>> thoughts.
>>>        
>> +1
>>
>> I like how folks that have the answer say to Google for it.  If you
>> don't know what to tell Google to find, Google isn't worth $0.01 on the
>> subject.
>>
>> Now after you get the answer, Google is great.  :-)
>>      
> Noooooooooooooooo, you don't get it.
>
> You must google the question to get the search terms
> Then you must google the search terms to get the answer
>
> Two-step process!
>
>    

That doesn't usually work for me in even a three or four step process.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[William Kenworthy]

On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 07:40 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Monday 05 July 2010 08:08:05 Dale wrote:
> >    
> >> Mick wrote:
> >>      
> >>> PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which you
> >>> should be searching.  I understand they are working hard on reading our
> >>> thoughts.
> >>>        
> >> +1
> >>
> >> I like how folks that have the answer say to Google for it.  If you
> >> don't know what to tell Google to find, Google isn't worth $0.01 on the
> >> subject.
> >>
> >> Now after you get the answer, Google is great.  :-)
> >>      
> > Noooooooooooooooo, you don't get it.
> >
> > You must google the question to get the search terms
> > Then you must google the search terms to get the answer
> >
> > Two-step process!
> >
> >    
> 
> That doesn't usually work for me in even a three or four step process.  lol
> 
> Dale
> 

There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of
asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer.
Its called "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy".

Its obvious, the answers 24.

:)
BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Daniel Pielmeier]

2010/7/5 William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>:
>
> There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of
> asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer.
> Its called "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy".
>
> Its obvious, the answers 24.

24? I always thought "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the
Universe, and Everything" was 42. Did I miss something? :)

-- 
Daniel Pielmeier

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[William Kenworthy]

On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 15:39 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> 2010/7/5 William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>:
> >
> > There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of
> > asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer.
> > Its called "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy".
> >
> > Its obvious, the answers 24.
> 
> 24? I always thought "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the
> Universe, and Everything" was 42. Did I miss something? :)
> 

uh? - check 2 + 2 = 5, rats, my brain is malfunctioning :(

or its a typo 

and I should NEVER try and send a witty reply after 9pm :(

BillK


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William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:22:42 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:

> and I should NEVER try and send a witty reply after 9pm :(

It's always after 9pm somewhere...


-- 
Neil Bothwick

A computer scientist is someone who, when told to "Go to Hell,"
sees the "go to," rather than the destination, as harmful.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Willie Wong]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> 2010/7/5 William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>:
> >
> > There is a very informative movie that might help explain the process of
> > asking a question, then asking what question you need to get the answer.
> > Its called "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy".
> >
> > Its obvious, the answers 24.
> 
> 24? I always thought "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the
> Universe, and Everything" was 42. Did I miss something? :)

Obviously William Kenworthy is actually from a planet in the vicinity
of Betelgeuse, and has three arms, 2 of which with 6 fingers, and 1
with 7. Else I cannot fathom why he would want to try to count in base
19. 

W
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Willie W. Wong                                     wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 06:57:12 +0100, Mick wrote:

> PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which
> you should be searching.

Your question was "How to capture a screen video"m Googling for "linux
How to capture a screen video" gives several answers :)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

When you finally buy enough memory, you will not have enough disk space.
 -- Murphy's Computer Laws n°3

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Mick]

On 5 July 2010 08:43, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 06:57:12 +0100, Mick wrote:
>
>> PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which
>> you should be searching.
>
> Your question was "How to capture a screen video"m Googling for "linux
> How to capture a screen video" gives several answers :)

Yes, I googled trying not to be clever and asked:

"How to record my desktop using Linux"

but this brought up the recordmydesktop application.  I thought there
must be more ways, knowing of xvidcap but not remembering ffmpeg.

At which point I thought, better ask the 'oracle' of all knowledge and
posted in this M/L.

A good keyword for a google search would have been "capture", but
after a long day of bashing the keyboard I was pretty brain dead to
come up with it!  O_O

Ditto for "screencast".  All I could think at the time was I want to
make a video of screenshots, or I want to record desktop events, none
of which gave me a satisfactory answer.
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Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[William Kenworthy]

On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 13:43 +0100, Mick wrote:
> On 5 July 2010 08:43, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 06:57:12 +0100, Mick wrote:
> >
> >> PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which
> >> you should be searching.
> >
> > Your question was "How to capture a screen video"m Googling for "linux
> > How to capture a screen video" gives several answers :)
> 
> Yes, I googled trying not to be clever and asked:
> 
> "How to record my desktop using Linux"
> 
> but this brought up the recordmydesktop application.  I thought there
> must be more ways, knowing of xvidcap but not remembering ffmpeg.
> 
> At which point I thought, better ask the 'oracle' of all knowledge and
> posted in this M/L.
> 
> A good keyword for a google search would have been "capture", but
> after a long day of bashing the keyboard I was pretty brain dead to
> come up with it!  O_O
> 
> Ditto for "screencast".  All I could think at the time was I want to
> make a video of screenshots, or I want to record desktop events, none
> of which gave me a satisfactory answer.

Ive used recordmydesktop and it does a good job - however the windows
camtasia app has a better end product due to propriety codecs.  I tried
many combinations on a recorded file to compress a recordmydesktop file
but never got near camtasias size/quality.  It was acceptable though for
download.

There were also the usual problems of syncing audio, some formats
playing ok on some platforms and not on others etc that also make
getting a winning combination difficult.

Needs some kind of linux expert on the subject to produce a usable guide
to the many settings to get the best out of it.

BillK

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[James]

Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes:


> What application can I use to capture a video sequence of events on my 
> desktop?  I'd like to do stuff on an application and create a video of my 
> mouse clicks and responses from the application.  Is there anything other than 
> xvidcap which seems to be hard masked?


Hello Mick,

After troving around a while, I cannot find the app I stumpled across
previously mentioned. Here is what I did find:

vncrec/vns2swf : http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/38221

istanbul : http://linuxappfinder.com/graphics/screencapture
 (et. al.)

PS overlook the attitudes of others, and if in doubt put
OT in the subject line, so those 'hi strung folks' skip
over your needs.....


hth,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[Mick]

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On Monday 05 July 2010 16:43:24 James wrote:
> Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > What application can I use to capture a video sequence of events on my
> > desktop?  I'd like to do stuff on an application and create a video of my
> > mouse clicks and responses from the application.  Is there anything other
> > than xvidcap which seems to be hard masked?
> 
> Hello Mick,
> 
> After troving around a while, I cannot find the app I stumpled across
> previously mentioned. Here is what I did find:
> 
> vncrec/vns2swf : http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/38221
> 
> istanbul : http://linuxappfinder.com/graphics/screencapture
>  (et. al.)
> 
> PS overlook the attitudes of others, and if in doubt put
> OT in the subject line, so those 'hi strung folks' skip
> over your needs.....

WOW!  There are more screencapture apps there that I can shake a stick at!  
Thanks James, I was also thinking of creating a flash movie for a demo and the 
vnc2swf will come handy too.

Thanks again for your help.

I better bookmark this linuxappfinder.com before I lose it.  ;-)  It seems 
like a good place to start looking for apps.
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Regards,
Mick

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