Screen recorder

[simplesi]

is there any RaspberryPi/Linux screen recording software (a la Camstudio for Windows) ?

regards
Simon

[JeremyF]

I doubt the Pi is fast enough for any screen recorder but maybe you could compile the source for http://sourceforge.net/projects/xvidcap/ (or maybe it's in repos)

[timothy3592]

A lot of programs can X11 grab. Personally I just use ffmpeg for that, since it lets me save the capture in any format i choose, which for the pi would probably be something like mpeg2 anything else just takes too much cpu time to encode.

X11 grabbing
FFmpeg can grab the X11 display.

ffmpeg -f x11grab -s cif -r 25 -i :0.0 /tmp/out.mpg

0.0 is display.screen number of your X11 server, same as the DISPLAY
environment variable.

ffmpeg -f x11grab -s cif -r 25 -i :0.0+10,20 /tmp/out.mpg

0.0 is display.screen number of your X11 server, same as the DISPLAY
environment variable. 10 is the x-offset and 20 the y-offset for the
grabbing.

from the ffmpeg manpage

hit up the manpage for commandline option for setting output codec and parameters and such.

[simplesi]

Thanks for the info:)
Trying to save to an mpg was a little too hard for the RPi but using this

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ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 480x360 -r 25 -i :0,0+700,100 /tmp/out.avi

was good enough to capture this from Scratch
http://youtu.be/l4yXa_2N4ww

Simon