• Re: Recording the Screen?

    From Big Bad Bob@3:770/3 to The Natural Philosopher on Fri Apr 16 11:41:37 2021
    On 2021-04-09 02:05, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 09/04/2021 09:46, F. W. wrote:
    I was asked if I can record a C-Programming-Course on Video for a small
    amount of people. Maybe the Video will later be published on Vimeo or
    Youtube. I need a relative good quality therefore.

    I would not like to be in picture. I think it is okay to write a program
    on screen while explaining what I do. I prefer my Raspberry Pi 400
    programming in C for the clarity of Linux-API and the natural
    relationship between C and Unix.

    Is there a hardware that can do this? KAZAM & Co seem not to work
    properly. What do professionals do?

    FW

    Oddly enough raspberry pi aside, I would also like to do this for the purposes of teaching a friend how to use a bit of quite complex software...

    its done on You tube all the time

    Record what you are doing and then record a voice over explaining it...


    VLC actually has the ability to do this. In short, you do X11 capture
    on the RPi, while recording the voice over. Later you can use ffmpeg or mencoder or something similar to combine the audio and video and do a
    sound sync.

    to make raw V4L video capture from the X11 display:

    cvlc --no-sout-display --sout-video --sout file://./screencap.temp.raw \
    --screen-left=0 --screen-top=0 --screen-width=800 \
    --screen-height=480 \
    --screen-fps=25.000000 --live-caching=300 screen://

    typically you need to post-crunch the video with something like
    'mencoder' or it won't play

    mencoder -idx -o ./screencap.mp4 -ovc x264 -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo format=bgra:w=800:h=480:size=3456000 -sb 300 screencap.temp.raw

    (you may have to experiment with the numbers for w, h, and size, as well
    as the '-sb' value - these were derived from the settings I use for a
    larger screen resolution)

    hope this helps.


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