Difference between revisions of "Activities/Screencast"

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(it would be a good idea to backup the existing file first, eg mv pippy_app.py pippy_app.bak)
 
(it would be a good idea to backup the existing file first, eg mv pippy_app.py pippy_app.bak)
  
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The Screencast application
 
The Screencast application
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The Journal listing three saved videos
 
The Journal listing three saved videos

Revision as of 03:37, 1 June 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

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)

Screencast.png

The Screencast application

Journ-shot.png

The Journal listing three saved videos