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

[Milan Zimmermann]

On Thursday 18 December 2008, Karl Ramberg wrote:
> Milan Zimmermann wrote:
> > On Monday 15 December 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > > On 15.12.2008, at 06:57, Milan Zimmermann wrote:
> > > > I cannot find any option for it, but was wondering if "playing" of
> > > >
> > > > Event Theatre can be "saved as" or converted to a video format such
> > > >
> > > > as ogg. I realize one can use a screencast software to capture that
> > > >
> > > > section of window but that seems to be a 2-step process, external to
> > > >
> > > > etoys..
> > >
> > > That would indeed be a very desirable feature. Right now it's not
> > >
> > > supported. Event theater only records events (including voice over)
> > >
> > > and plays back by re-executing the events.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What could be implemented relatively easily is to store a series of
> > >
> > > pictures while playing back, and save the audio as a WAV or similar.
> > >
> > > Then you could use an external tool to create a video from that.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Even cooler (but probably much less simple) would be to use the new
> > >
> > > GStreamer support to encode an OGG video directly from Etoys.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Milan
>
> 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

I will give it a try - I made my video allright but this is interesting 
experiment eve if it shows to slow/jerky.

Thanks, Milan



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