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Video Capture from an X11 Window?

Posted by Cliff on from the fast-screenshots-just-won't-do dept.

Dandre asks: "I'm trying to capture video from an X11 window containing a java display of my research into an MPEG. The only 'solution' I was able to find was to use x11rec, which stores an animated gif from the window. I then can presumably use various tools (mpeg2encode & gimp) to split this into separate images then bind it together again into an MPEG. I would have thought there was a simple tool to just capture directly into MPEG from the given display. Does anyone have any suggestions?"

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  1. Try this by Bobo_The_Boinger · · Score: 3, Informative

    I came across this site http://www.hdk-berlin.de/~rasca/xvidcap/ that seems to capture directly to single files, so you can skip going from the animated gif to single files step. Not sure if it is exactly what you want though, they say you need a fast machine for any largish size captures.

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  2. Why would you want to do that? by reynaert · · Score: 3, Informative

    You just have to modify your program to save a bitmap of each frame to a file. That can't be that much of work.

  3. Re:Transcode by cjpez · · Score: 3, Informative
    Argh, make some links!

    http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostre ich/transcode/
    http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostre ich/transcode/html/modules.html

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