Hello all, once again I find myself turning to my fellow dopers in hopes of salvation. I’ve recently been asked to help create (or rather re-create) a video that shows some scenes from a desktop display. The way it was originally shot was by pointing a camera at the screen, and recording that. Obviously that produced some very lousy images when the final product was displayed on a large Plasma. What I’m looking for is an easy method of capturing a window in Linux as a movie file. I can do single screen shots of course, but findind a program that will let me capture a minute or two of screen activity is proving difficult. So far I’ve played around with Xvidcap but haven’t had a whole lot of success. Some of that may be because I’m fairly unfamiliar with Linux, so I could possibly not be doing something right. While that program will produce a .mpg file, it doesn’t seem to be capturing at a very high rate, and seems to just fall apart at anything over 30 frames.
So my question. Does anyone know of another easier to use program for linux that will allow me to do this? Or, is there a physical device that I can use to hook up the actual VGA output to a DVI input on a camera? If that makes sense. Something that I could hook up right to the computer’s video output that would let me go right into the Digital Camera?
Thanks for any and all help.