From 165ca7ae2900cbee010096b22d1c0fca616286c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:07:49 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add recordmydesktop example to screen recording post. --- posts/Screen_recording.mdwn | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/posts/Screen_recording.mdwn b/posts/Screen_recording.mdwn index 4ed269a..484617b 100644 --- a/posts/Screen_recording.mdwn +++ b/posts/Screen_recording.mdwn @@ -36,6 +36,18 @@ choice (see my [[video encoding|video]] post for hints. Note to Gentoo users: you'll need to compile ffmpeg with the `X` flag enabled to get the x11grab video input device. +If you can't get ffmpeg to work, an example `recordmydesktop` command +looks something like: + + recordmydesktop --height 600 --width 880 --channels 1 --overwrite -o ramdisk/setup.ogv + +Some benefits recordmydesktop: + +* it uses `libxdamage` to only monitor regions of your window that + have changed (I'm not sure how ffmpeg's x11grab works). +* it doesn't encode the video until after encoding finishes (although + you can encode on the fly if you like). + [Xvidcap]: http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/ [recordMyDesktop]: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/ [ffmpeg]: http://www.ffmpeg.org/ -- 2.26.2