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Linux Screen capture converted to AVI File 1
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Perhaps you could get a TV-out card for linux and a TV capture card for a seperate windows machine?
It's not really "TV" out , as it has no tuner on the card, it just specifies what type of extra output connector is on the card. I use mine to display video off my computer such as divx movies and the occasional video game to my 36" TV, and a few times when I borrowed the xvga projector from work for "movie night" on the wall...
It displays the desktop just like a normal monitor.
While I can't help much on the specific linux tv-out card suggestion, there are a variety of cheap windows capture cards.
I'm sure you could find an older s3 savage tv-out super cheap on ebay or something..I see one now with tv-out for $6 at "buy it now" price actually.
Drivers for linux with tv-out here for the s3 savage: It not good for gaming , but I somehow doubt you are gaming on your linux box anyway.
I'd personally find a newer linux (&windows for more use after the project was done) supported video card with TV out (preferably s-video over RCA) to "upgrade" the linux box. Then you could easily find a plethora of cheap windows tv capture add-on cards (pci or usb), or maybe you know someone who already has a ati tv capture card setup...
Then plug the s-video tv-out connector to tv-in capture card input and away you go!....???
My next suggestion to try would be to capture on a windows machine with a multimedia, video streaming, or screen capture utility, and setup something like VNC (similar to PCanywhere) on both the linux and windows machines to allow the windows machine to emulate the linux desktop, though you would probably have to edit and crop the final video, and I somehow doubt that would work anyway, but you never know. The second solution is certainly cheaper, as you can find freeware capture & emulation software if you look around.
Sorry to ramble...
Good luck!
It's not really "TV" out , as it has no tuner on the card, it just specifies what type of extra output connector is on the card. I use mine to display video off my computer such as divx movies and the occasional video game to my 36" TV, and a few times when I borrowed the xvga projector from work for "movie night" on the wall...
It displays the desktop just like a normal monitor.
While I can't help much on the specific linux tv-out card suggestion, there are a variety of cheap windows capture cards.
I'm sure you could find an older s3 savage tv-out super cheap on ebay or something..I see one now with tv-out for $6 at "buy it now" price actually.
Drivers for linux with tv-out here for the s3 savage: It not good for gaming , but I somehow doubt you are gaming on your linux box anyway.
I'd personally find a newer linux (&windows for more use after the project was done) supported video card with TV out (preferably s-video over RCA) to "upgrade" the linux box. Then you could easily find a plethora of cheap windows tv capture add-on cards (pci or usb), or maybe you know someone who already has a ati tv capture card setup...
Then plug the s-video tv-out connector to tv-in capture card input and away you go!....???
My next suggestion to try would be to capture on a windows machine with a multimedia, video streaming, or screen capture utility, and setup something like VNC (similar to PCanywhere) on both the linux and windows machines to allow the windows machine to emulate the linux desktop, though you would probably have to edit and crop the final video, and I somehow doubt that would work anyway, but you never know. The second solution is certainly cheaper, as you can find freeware capture & emulation software if you look around.
Sorry to ramble...
Good luck!
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