Record Desktop [solved]

[boardstupid]

I am wanting to record a video of my desktop. I used Kwins built in recorder but the video was saved as a .cps and I have absolutely no idea what to do with it. There is one other post on these forums with the same issue but it was submitted almost a year ago and no-one replied to it. I'm wondering if I might have more luck.

Does anyone know of a way to play .cps files?
If not, what other recording program would you recommend?

[Wander]

Re: Record Desktop

You can use the program "recordmydesctop"

[Rog131]

Re: Record Desktop

Does anyone know of a way to play .cps files?

> KWin and the capseo thingy
> Kwin Desktop-Effects now records screencaptures! So how do you play it's .cps file?

and

Package: capseo

video codec (binary files)

This is the Capseo codec library, used for screen capturing with captury.

Homepage: http://rm-rf.in/captury

BUT (with the KDE 4.2 (beta-2) Jaunty (alpha-2))

cpsplay kwin_video1.cps

error: This piece of cursed code is under development!
Please use `cpsrecode movie.cps | mplayer -` to view your movie.

Note !
That syntax is wrong:

Mplayer...
ERROR: No input file specified
I die...

and

cpsrecode -i kwin_video1.cps -o - | mplayer -

or

cpsrecode -i kwin_video1.cps -o - | mencoder - -o screen-capture.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=xvid:autoaspect=1

...
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
...
============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported =============
=== If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the author! ===
Cannot open demuxer.

Exiting...
...

Maybe with the KDE 4.3 or with the KDE 4.4 or ... but as the "Wander" said the repositories have:

Package: recordmydesktop

Captures audio-video data of a Linux desktop session

The application produces an ogg-encapsulated theora-vorbis file. recordMyDesktop tries to be as unobstrusive as possible by proccessing only regions of the screen that have changed

Package: krecordmydesktop

KDE frontend to recordmydesktop

Earlier:
> Topic: qt-recordmydesktop deb/repository?
> qt-recordMyDesktop

[boardstupid]

Re: Record Desktop

Excellent. Thanks to both of you.
It automatically saves as audio only (.ogg) but a quick file extension change and it's fixed.
One thing I noticed however is that it doesn't record straight away, but that could just be something to do with me using an intergrated graphics card on a laptop, and it doesn't finish recording when you click stop. It only ends once you have entered a location to save the file.

Still, it's better than having a file that I can't open. Thanks again

[tomp01]

Re: Record Desktop

Still, it's better than having a file that I can't open. Thanks again

I like your forum name!!