Screencasting
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This tutorial covers how to create lossless videos of your desktop on either Windows or Linux and then how to edit them and add sound followed by steps to transcode them into lossy formats like SWF, MPEG-4 or XviD. This tutorial is incomplete so in the meantime check out these links:
- Creating Screencasts on Linux
- FFV1 Lossless Video Codec on Wikipedia
- CamStudio Software or CamStudio Software on SourceForge
- xvidcap Software on SourceForge
To create a FLV type mencoder INPUT_VIDEO.avi -vf harddup -srate 22050 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64:mode=3 -of lavf -lavfopts format=flv -o OUTPUT_VIDEO.flv and to create an iPod-compatable H.264 video type mencoder INPUT_VIDEO.avi -vf harddup -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts vcodec=libx264:vbitrate=512:acodec=libfaac:abitrate=128 -of lavf -lavfopts format=ipod -o OUTPUT_VIDEO.mp4.
You may also want to check out what are the default codecs that are included with WMP 9 and 10.
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