[MPlayer-users] Re: How to record the X output

[Jonathan Rogers]

J. Grant wrote:
> Your friend could write a script that takes screenshots 25 times per 
> sec, then you can reconstruct all those images into a video.  Does 
> mencoder suppport inputing separate frames like this?
>

Yes, it does, with the "mf://" syntax. You can use ImageMagick's import 
utility in automated capturing. It can write PNG, JPEG, and many other 
formats.


> on the 04/09/03 08:56, Thomas Helfer wrote:
>> A friend of mine wants to make a presentation of a software. His goal 
>> is to record what happens on the screen (He uses X in a "natural" way, 
>> which means with NVidia drivers and no framebuffer).

RFB Proxy could be useful for this purpose, though I don't know of a way 
to connect it to MPlayer. I'm not sure what you mean by 'in a "natural" 
way, which means with NVidia drivers and no framebuffer'.

<URL:http://cyberelk.net/tim/rfbproxy/>

Jonathan Rogers