GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 304933
Add screenshot stream support
Last modified: 2011-09-17 06:06:00 UTC
Created attachment 46697 [details] [review] Patch adding screenshot stream support This patch adds screenshot stream support to gnome-screenshot. gnome-screenshot --duration=20 will capture for 20 seconds the current screen and save the result as an OGG file (similarly to http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net, but the GNOME way).
(1) Get gst-plugins from CVS (BRANCH-GSTREAMER-0_8) or a version that includes the file sys/ximage/ximagesrc.c. (2) Run gstreamer-properties (gnome-media) and select ximagesrc as default video source (3) Apply the patch to gnome-utils (CVS HEAD) and recompile. (4) Run gnome-panel-screenshot --duration=20 to test the installation.
Eep! Lutz, someone else has just been hacking on the same stuff: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-June/msg00030.html I'd recommend getting together with them and discussing it, so we don't double up the code...
We now have a builtin recorder in the shell, so I don't think this is interesting anymore.