Once your video is ready, power up a media player and enjoy: Here's an example of mencoder hard at work: If you do not haveĪn audio track and do not wish to use it, you can simply remove the audio part from the command. Now, I'm no multimedia expert, but I believe this pretty much explains it in simple terms. The bitrate is relatively low, only 3Mb/sec the earlier created audio file is also inserted into the output Next, glc-play plays the first available video stream and pipes it to mencoder the latter then uses the y4mĭemuxer to interpret the stream and then package it as a MPEG-4 video in. audiofile audio.wav -oac mp3lame -o video.avi Glc-play -y 1 -o - | mencoder -demuxer y4m -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=3000 Glc-play plays first available audio stream into a WAV file. There's no golden rule, but here's an example. When I started using glc, this was the one reference I used, Site, which offers examples on various options. Second, there's a wiki page on the official The script hasĪ few hard-coded options, so there's no guarantee it will work for you. ![]() Script) already available on the official site, which will create MP4 videos from your streams. Sounds a bit cryptic, but it's not thatįirst, there's an encoding script (direct link, shell ![]() Stream the file with glc-play and pipe it to mencoder for packaging. Tools available in repositories of most distributions. Glc works with mencoder and lame utilities, so you should download and install those first. Now comes the really fun part, making cool videos from your work! Going into complete detail about encoding isīeyond the scope of this article, nevertheless, I will show you a few quick tips that should help you get And if you care for some ramblings about the new themes, you may want to read my Color of stability article. If you are wondering about the new themes and how you can use them on older version of Ubuntu, then pleaseīlog. Oh, the graphics card is 512MB RAM Nvidia 9600GS. One instance of Jaunty and one of openSUSEġ1.2 Gnome. RD510 laptop, which normally boots two instances of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, This demonstration was done on aģ2-bit Karmic, running from an external 2.5" 5400rpm USB disk connected to my We'll do that shortly beforehand, a coolīe not confused by the Lucid window theme. Software to create movies for everyone to see and appreciate. You can later use glc-play and additional Glc-play will stream the file in its own media-player-like frame. Use glc-play to see your in-program or in-game recording. avi file. But how do you know you've done a good job? Well, glc-play. A roughly 30-second recording produced a 250MB stream that I was later able toĮncode to just 14MB worth of. Lo and behold, the slowdown in the game was almost negligible.Įverything ran quite smoothly. I tested with Enemy Territory Quake Wars, a beautiful, lovely first person This will record only video, the moment the application launches. Many other parameters, like start recording immediately (-s), change the output filename and path (-o), cap theįrames per second, change compression, maybe even disable the audio. Then, in game, you can start/stop recording using a hotkey. Spend a few moments learning how to use glc, but it's not very difficult. Both are command utilities with a handful of flags. Once the program is installed, you will have two utilities - glc-capture and See the Problem section below for more details. I've encountered difficulties using the latter method, so I'd recommend using the version in the repositories. You can install glc from official distro repositories or download the build script from the official website and build on your own. Warcraft or another Wine-ed game, then the answer is yes. So if you're wondering if glc is going to work with World of ![]() Will also refer to Wine and Windows applications. Nothing like some hardcore shooting action and fast-paced driving to instill the concept. Well, enter glc, a Linux FRAPS-like software capable of capturing, We need something else to grab the video in games and other OpenGL programs. They use the X Windows, while most games utilize hardwareĪcceleration of the graphic card to do their magic, so the actual rendering of graphics is done before the However, while these programs are quite adequate for pureĭesktop use, they do not work well with games. Another program comes to mind, Istanbul, which I've shown you in my PCLinuxOS 2009 article. No problem, you have a handful of tools to do just that - Wink, recordMyDesktop, for instance, both of which Short of a video demonstration is going to work. Has many aspects - educational, tutorial and sometimes sheer bravado. Playing Live for Speed. Being able to record your desktop activities For instance, I've used FRAPS to grab a handful of cool videos while ![]() Running on your desktop, most often games. For those wondering, FRAPS is a Windows program that can be used to record video streams of applications
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