J_K9 @ Linux

Ubuntu 6.10 Videos Delayed

February 8, 2007 on 8:49 pm | In Linux, Ubuntu |

I’m sorry about this. I did try to make them, but my laptop (Pentium M 740 1.73Ghz with 512MB RAM) simply was not powerful enough to record the videos at a decent fps. I was trying to make it do at least 10fps with XVidCap, but my laptop could only handle about 1.8fps, which is hardly satisfactory.

So why didn’t I record them on my computer, which is definitely powerful enough to handle high frames per second at a clear resolution? It has Ubuntu installed on it, but there’s one thing it lacks: WPA support. The lack of WPA support means that I cannot connect it to my wireless network, so I cannot download network-manager which would allow me to connect to it.. Ironic, eh? The router is also on the other side of the room from the computer, and the only ethernet cable I have (a 3m cable) does not reach. Moving the computer is also out of the question, as there are just far too many cables running behind the desk to even consider moving it. I’m not willing to compromise the security of my network, even for a few minutes, to connect the desktop. However, I am willing to buy a 20m ethernet cable, and as I have the whole of next week off (it’s a short break) I’ll have more than enough time to record the videos. So, don’t lose hope yet - they’re on their way

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Nice concept. Take your time… Looking forward to see the results.

My laptop is similar to yours. Is XVidcap really that resource hungry?

Comment by hari — February 9, 2007 #
Using Mozilla 1.8.1.1 on Debian GNU/Linux
It appears to be… I was running no other applications or extra daemons when I ran XVidcap, and yet it was still that slow. I’m going to try recording with other tools, such as Istanbul and Cinelerra (I believe that has a screen recording tool) as soon as I get home

Another thing that I dislike about XVidcap is that there seems to be no way of minimising its window to the toolbar and setting keyboard shortcuts to start/pause/restart/stop recording. Perhaps I haven’t looked hard enough (although I couldn’t find any of these settings in its GUI Preferences panel, and nothing in its documentation either). If those features aren’t there, then I might just add them as feature requests to its bugtracker (I think I was using the latest version — I’ll have to check… I’m not sure if I was running the latest one compiled from source or an older version from Ubuntu’s repositories).

Comment by J_K9 — February 9, 2007 #
Using Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
The lack of WPA support means that I cannot connect it to my wireless network, so I cannot download network-manager which would allow me to connect to it.

Makes you pine for HyperGet, eh?

Comment by Gunny — February 10, 2007 #
Using Mozilla Firefox 2.0 on Ubuntu Linux
Definitely

Comment by J_K9 — February 10, 2007 #
Using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Ubuntu Linux
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