[Etoys] Can Playing of Etoys Event Theatre be saved as screencast (e.g. OGG)?

[Karl Ramberg]

Milan Zimmermann wrote:
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> On Monday 15 December 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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> > On 15.12.2008, at 06:57, Milan Zimmermann wrote:
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> > > I cannot find any option for it, but was wondering if "playing" of
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> > > Event Theatre can be "saved as" or converted to a video format such
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> > > as ogg. I realize one can use a screencast software to capture that
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> > > section of window but that seems to be a 2-step process, external to
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> > > etoys..
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> > That would indeed be a very desirable feature. Right now it's not
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> > supported. Event theater only records events (including voice over)
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> > and plays back by re-executing the events.
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> > What could be implemented relatively easily is to store a series of
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> > pictures while playing back, and save the audio as a WAV or similar.
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> > Then you could use an external tool to create a video from that.
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> > Even cooler (but probably much less simple) would be to use the new
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> > GStreamer support to encode an OGG video directly from Etoys.
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> Thanks for your comments - Interesting. I would not know where to 
> start, but maybe one day ... in relation to that, would it make sense 
> to tackle it in the new (Tweak-based) Etoys - I am not sure it is on 
> the radar.
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> Milan
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The simplest thing would be a script that take a screenshot at a certain 
frequency and save them to a folder. I'm not sure how many frames per 
second that would give though....

Karl