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Topic: Screenshots -> AVI/SWF movie, Creating movies in X

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liran

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Posted: July 20 2005,11:14

Hey everyone,

I was wondering if someone had experienced this before-
I want to create visual movies/guides in DSL and I'm looking
for some screen capturing program that could save it all
to avi/mpg/swf or whatever format.

I was on freshmeat and found xrec and vidcap or something like that but they both require extra packages which usually result in around ~80mb install of other libs/packs

Is there some tool designed for that for DSL?
or rather a light-weight similar tool...

Thanks,
Lir

mikshaw

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Posted: July 20 2005,14:27

can't say if this works in DSL, but here's a way to convert a series of images into a swf
http://www.quiss.org/swftools/

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liran

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Posted: July 20 2005,14:36

well the problem being not to convert the images to swf or some other movie format but rather to actually accomplish a screen capture, which does it repeatedly and makes a movie out of it.

(should i just go with runing a loop of xwd or something?)

Max

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Posted: July 20 2005,14:38

The Impress program (like PowerPoint) of Open Office can also export directly to swf. This would make it easy to annotate any screen shots and you could probably even add in an audio narration track.

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liran

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Posted: July 21 2005,17:21

i just want to know how do i take a simple screenshot of the screen of the entire screen with dsl.
like to do xwd -out myscreen.xwd
but i cant use it cause its waiting for a mouse-click and i want to put it in a loop to create
hundreds of images which i can later use to create a movie stream.

any ideas?
thanks

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