VLC params to play mir screencast output

Alberto Aguirre alberto.aguirre at canonical.com
Mon Feb 17 04:50:40 UTC 2014


Yes mirscreencast is the utility.

After this branch is merged, it will be a single video file:

https://code.launchpad.net/~albaguirre/mir/screencast-crash-fix/+merge/206337




On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Daniel van Vugt <
daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com> wrote:

> I'm just figuring it out myself. It appears you just run client:
>    mirscreencast
> (might require sudo) and that generates frames: /tmp/*.bgra
>
> mirscreencast should be installed by the "mir-utils" package.
>
> Obviously in future it might be nice for mirscreencast to generate a
> single video file instead of many separate images. There are also
> performance problems:
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1280938
> But these are all things to work on...
>
> - Danirl
>
>
>
> On 17/02/14 12:32, Oliver Ries wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Daniel van Vugt
>> <daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com <mailto:daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com>>
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Nice.
>>
>>     And this command works too (with BGRA as well):
>>     mplayer -fixed-vo -demuxer rawvideo \
>>        -rawvideo fps=60:w=1920:h=1200:format=__bgra /tmp/*bgra
>>
>>
>>     Although it renders in a jerky way.
>>
>>     To create a lossless video file which plays back more realistically:
>>     mencoder -demuxer rawvideo \
>>        -rawvideo fps=60:w=1920:h=1200:format=__bgra /tmp/*bgra \
>>
>>        -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=ffv1 -o all.avi
>>
>>     Obviously substitute "fps=60:w=1920:h=1200:format=__bgra" as required
>>
>>
>>
>> sweet, I however didn't get the memo how one would actually capture the
>> screen. Can someone pls explain?
>>
>> thx
>> Olli
>>
>
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