From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: Re: Videos Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 10:53:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87in76qzzk.fsf@elephly.net> <87a7shtkbl.fsf@gmail.com> <87a7sghk19.fsf@gnu.org> <87po1cpd3r.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45815) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOJL8-00070i-DI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 04:53:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOJL5-0004nD-FJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 04:53:44 -0400 Received: from mail-qt0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::230]:41373) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOJL5-0004n7-Aw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 04:53:43 -0400 Received: by mail-qt0-x230.google.com with SMTP id y20-v6so748287qto.8 for ; Thu, 31 May 2018 01:53:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: t_w_@freenet.de Cc: guix-devel Hello, On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > I guess the ideal material to work with would be a sequence of text files. > For commands that cause a noticeable delay and for text scrolling by, one > would also need timing information. > > Coupled with a script that takes such input and renders a sequence of still > images and sub-sequences at the desired FPS. > > So for every state of output that is held on screen for a while, you have > one image that can easily be used for the desired duration in a video > editor. For text (terminal) screen captures, I recently discovered asciinema(1), I'll let you decide if it suits your needs, but it was very easy to setup (package exists for debian). And very lightweight too. (1) https://asciinema.org/ Cheers -- Vincent Legoll