On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:40:44PM +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
> That is really brilliant! As I've not really used IRC much before, I
> actually learned a few things too!
>
That worked then :)
Thanks very much.
> > * Run xwininfo to find out the xwindows window-id of the qemu window
>
> Presumably this ID is fed to recordmydesktop?
>
Yes.
For example in one terminal I type this:-
$ qemu -hda edgyxchat.qcow -net nic -net user -m 512 -soundhw all
Then, once it's running elsewhere I run xwininfo and then when prompted
click on the qemu window. This is the result:-
alan@wopr:~$ xwininfo
xwininfo: Please select the window about which you
would like information by clicking the
mouse in that window.
xwininfo: Window id: 0x3200003 "QEMU"
Absolute upper-left X: 651
Absolute upper-left Y: 51
Relative upper-left X: 5
Relative upper-left Y: 24
Width: 1024
Height: 768
Depth: 24
Visual Class: DirectColor
Border width: 0
Class: InputOutput
Colormap: 0x320000c (not installed)
Bit Gravity State: ForgetGravity
Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Backing Store State: NotUseful
Save Under State: no
Map State: IsViewable
Override Redirect State: no
Corners: +651+51 -5+51 -5-231 +651-231
-geometry 1024x768-0+27
Then I run recordmydesktop like this:-
alan@wopr:~$ recordmydesktop --nosound -windowid 0x3200003
Initial recording window is set to:
X:651 Y:51 Width:1024 Height:768
Adjusted recording window is set to:
X:650 Y:50 Width:1024 Height:768
Initializing...
Capturing!
At this point it's now recording. I go to the qemu window (or indeed whatever
window I am
recording) and do the demo. When finished I flick back to the recordmydesktop
window and hit
CTRL+C and this happens..
Done.
Written 96797 bytes
(96797 of which were video data and 0 audio data)
Shutting down......
Goodbye!
alan@wopr:~$
Job done.
> > * Run recordmydesktop specifying the option to NOT record audio.
>
> Is that because the sound recording int recordmy desktop is poor or is
> it a human interaction thing?
>
In a nutshell, the latter. I find it hard enough to steer the mouse, take in
all the
dialogs, think about what I'm going to say without the extra hassle of actually
saying it.
When I later recorded the audio I made numerous mistakes. So the ability to
edit the audio in a
simple audio editor like audacity, or in my case, just restart recording again,
was beneficial.
Given the lack of decent video editors on Linux I figured this would be a
prudent decision.
Don't get me wrong though, I am not saying the audio has to be perfect, but it
certainly helps
to be understood if you're not "uhm"-ing and "ahhm"-ing all the time whilst
recording.
Cheers,
Al.
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