| Summary: | ksnapshot screen recording feature request | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] ksnapshot | Reporter: | Peter <peter> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Richard Moore <rich> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | ch75, jens-bugs.kde.org |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 0.5 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Peter
2003-01-31 11:49:35 UTC
Subject: Re: ksnapshot screen recording feature request Hmmm, maybe. It'll have to look to the user like a separate app though or it is too confusing. I'll think about it. Maybe with dcop? Hello, xvidcap (http://xvidcap.sf.net) provides this functionality. There is also vncrecord (or something like that) which can record a VNC session to disk. I think KSnapshot doesn't need to reimplement this functionality. But it might integrate xvidcap for a more user friendly interface :-) Thanks, Jens none of the other applications really live up to what one normally would want to do with such a feature, that is, record movie streams of the desktop, or parts of it. I would like ksnapshot to get enchanced with a feature to record movie that just as the ordinary screenshots can target a window, background, with or without borders etc. Additionally I would like to have a system tray to show if I'm recording or not, with easy access to record and stop. An applet for these buttons as well as a visual representation of amount of time recorded would be just perfect. what file formats to record to can be discussed, but I think there should be at least a way to record to a final movie instead of only images, and I think there should be at least 2 codecs to choose from, a lossless one, and a lossy one (say, huffyuv and xvid). I know this will be a lot of work to get into ksnapshot, but it's a feature well needed. (and there is no real good one for linux yet, and especially not kde/qt based) just my thoughts, and if there is anything I can do to help except code feel free to drop me a mail at roze@roze.mine.nu (I'd gladly do screenshots, movies and documentation on how to use it :D) Google for "xvidcap". It's all been done already ;) I'd love this feature integrated into ksnapshot, though. can xvidcap record only a certain window? without window decorations? does it have a tray icon? easy usable applet? I looked at xvidcap before I came here, and from what I saw and read it's a gtk-based application and it didn't sport all that many features. besides, I'd never compile a ton of libs to get onle 1 application working that wouldn't even fit in my desktop. kde needs something just as good or better as xvidcap. yes. yes. no. yes. Gtk? No. Plain X11. :-) It records the X11 screen as a video. That's it. UNIX philospohy - do one thing and do it well. I was talking about maybe taking the basic feature set and integrating it into ksnapshot. I'm not expecting anybody to do it just because it would be "nice" - my favorite feature is also still missing (cut&paste support, e.g. into KMail as an attachment, without having to save the screenshot to a file first). But you seem to be a bit spoiled in that respect, aren't you? How can you expect anybody else to actually *develop* anything for you if you aren't even willing to compile it? Jens Jens, I don't see a reason for you to call me negative things. I came here and said it would be "nice" to have som feature, I gave suggestions on which and how to enhance a already great tool so it could become something greater. Heck! I even said I was ready to help out in any way except coding (I'm no good coder and don't want to introduce lots of bugs :) and plain x11 is better then gtk, but it still won't fit the kde hig, and it won't fit the desktop as whole. anyway I think (my personal view) you should try to take the good things out of what people say and appreciate them for that, instead of telling people they're not "good". Richard Moore/dev team: I'm still willing to help out with anything except code (design of ui, documentation etc) Hi Jonas! Well, it looked to me as if you were expecting others to do much more work (= develop) than you were willing to do yourself (= compile). That fits my definition of being spoiled or maybe lazy - no offence indended. But if you *are* willing to help, I take that remark back, of course. Now the first thing to do would be to get xvidcap running, because it works quite well :-) And I *think* one can just write a new GUI for it if need be, even KDE based. It's been done with the GTK GUI instead of the plain X11 one. And *that* would save the ksnapshot devs a whole lot of time, wouldn't it? Jens *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** I really need a feature that reccords screen movement into mpeg or gif files. I guess xvidcap solves my problem. I don't know if the policy here tends to repeat features present in other packages. I'm just here to say it's usefull for several things, including recording tutorials. This feature would include the option for recording for "x" secconds, and, also, the option given by "start" and "stop" buttoms. It would be really nice to have a KDE application for capturing not only screenshots, but video. Either in another program or in ksnapshot (afaik all digital cameras can also record videos) I think KRecordMyDesktop is probably a better solution to this than trying to hack ksnapshto to support this. http://sourceforge.net/projects/krecmydesktop/ *** Bug 217476 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |