on Wed, Nov 20, 2002, J?rg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello Martin > > >is it possible to capture all that's going on on my X server to video > >somehow? I imagine it can't be hard thanks to X's modular > >architecture. Does anyone have a pointer or so? > > > <no better ideas so far, so why not throw in this one...> > There are various programs that can capture the X desktop (screenshot). > If you could use such a program in a script that makes a screenshot > every second (or longer or shorter), you could assemble these images to > a mpeg (or some other movie format, you might have followed the thread > about this topic the last few days). > Note: I have not taken screenshots before, so sory I can't tell you what > screenshooter to use.
I'd suggest 'import' from imagemagick: while import -window root screenshot.$( date +'%Y-%m-%d.%H%M%S).png; do sleep 1; done Though that's not quite realtime capture. I'd think a hardware device is what you'd need for what you're describing, Martin. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss/
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