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On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 03:29 +0100, Stroller wrote: |
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> On 18 July 2011, at 02:54, Grant wrote: |
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> > Does there exist a program that allows you to record the activity |
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> > taking place on a computer screen for later review? |
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> I'm pretty sure you can do this with mplayer / mencoder (to make a video screencast). |
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> It depends what your needs are, exactly. |
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> If you're monitoring teenagers or employees for inappropriate behaviour you might be happy with a screen shot every 1 - 5 minutes, so you could just use some kind framebuffer grabber (media-gfx/fbgrab?) and a cronjob. You could stitch those together daily into a speeded up video for easier review (you might be able to do this with mencoder, just by slowing the capture framerate down to once every 60 - 300 seconds) or compile the whole lot into a page of HTML to scroll through. |
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> Stroller. |
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I use this one to prep movies about using software etc ... files are not |
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as small as camtasias for a given quality, but postprocessing helps get |
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close if size is important. |
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BillK |
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moriah ~ # esearch recordmy |
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[ Results for search key : recordmy ] |
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[ Applications found : 3 ] |
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* media-video/gtk-recordmydesktop |
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Latest version available: 0.3.8-r1 |
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Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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Size of downloaded files: 172 kB |
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Homepage: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/ |
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Description: GTK interface for RecordMyDesktop |
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License: GPL-2 |
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* media-video/qt-recordmydesktop |
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Latest version available: 0.3.8 |
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Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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Size of downloaded files: 181 kB |
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Homepage: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/ |
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Description: QT4 interface for RecordMyDesktop |
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License: GPL-2 |
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* media-video/recordmydesktop |
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Latest version available: 0.3.8.1-r4 |
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Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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Size of downloaded files: 194 kB |
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Homepage: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/ |
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Description: A desktop session recorder producing Ogg video/audio |
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files |
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License: GPL-2 |
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