Linux Video Capture

[mddolloff]

Does anyone know of a product that will allow me to do on-screen video capture in Linux? What I want to do is record what is going on on my screen by selecting an area (small window) and just setting it to record in some sort of video format what changes and goes on in that area. Thanks.

 

[xcript]

freshmeat suggests Xvidcap.

 

[mddolloff]

Originally posted by: xcript
freshmeat suggests Xvidcap.

That would work, but I am looking for something a bit more robust. I'm not afraid to spend quite a bit of money on the product either. Maybe video editing, etc.

 

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Originally posted by: mddolloff

Originally posted by: xcript
freshmeat suggests Xvidcap.

That would work, but I am looking for something a bit more robust. I'm not afraid to spend quite a bit of money on the product either. Maybe video editing, etc.

Well you can just take the resulting stream and then edit it in a movie editor, couldn't you?

Because that's kinda the idea, instead of having 1 big program you have a few little programs to do your bidding.

A decent movie editor that I've used is Avidemux. It's kinda weird to use at first, but they have a couple tutorials online you can look at and then it makes sense.

Another editor is lvempeg, haven't used that though.

 

[mddolloff]

I'm not sure. My boss just wants something and wants to spend money on a nicely packaged easy to use program.

 

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Originally posted by: mddolloff
I'm not sure. My boss just wants something and wants to spend money on a nicely packaged easy to use program.

Oh.

Well I don't know if all xvidcap + avimdux and all that will qualify as "easy to use" or not.

How about you test it out, figure out how it works, make sure that it works and does what you need it to do.

Make a video of what to do to get it to do what he wants. Like a demo.

Then put the both programs + the instruction movie in a zip file (or put it in a RPM package if you use Redhat/Suse/Mandrake) and call it "Linux screen video capture and editing suite." and charge him 50 dollars for it.

(Just kidding about that last part about the 50 bucks.)


A different program that is related, but probably not what your looking for is http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/.

It takes output of a VNC client and turns it into a flash animation so that you can do stuff like embed instructional videos into webpages and stuff like that.

Just a FYI.