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== Where to get it == | == Where to get it == | ||
It can be downloaded from http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/screencast/Screencast-1.xo | It can be downloaded from http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/screencast/Screencast-1.xo | ||
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Revision as of 10:16, 4 August 2009
Background
Screencast is a video screen capture utility. It is based on Recordmydesktop by John Varouhakis. It captures the screen to a video file which is in Ogg-Theora-Vorbis file format.
Where to get it
It can be downloaded from http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/screencast/Screencast-1.xo
- Does the .xo mean that it will only work on OLPC machines? Anyone tested this on a standard Intel CPU? SoaS?
Status
It is thought to be buggy but the following patch has allowed video to be saved to the Journal. Open Terminal and change to directory /home/olpc/Activities/Screencast.activity and replace the file pippy_app.py with this file (renamed to pippy_app.py)
(it would be a good idea to backup the existing file first, eg mv pippy_app.py pippy_app.bak)
The Screencast application
Running from the command line
Open Terminal and change to directory /home/olpc/Activities/Screencast.activity
./recordmydesktop
press ctrl c to terminate recording, then wait for processing to complete
copy-to-journal out.ogv -m video/ogg
The manual is helpful reading
questions
Any chance that we can get a screencast of this arcane process? I feel like there a lot of steps taken for granted here.