example transcode command

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newz2000

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Jan 17, 2006, 3:13:03 PM1/17/06
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Can someone provide a working transcode command that will convert a vnc
session into some other usable format?

Ideally, I'd like to take a screen capture recording and bring it into
a video editing program where I can then work it into something that
can be distributed.

We're using Real VNC on a windows computer running 800x600 24bpp
resolution and capturing on an Ubuntu Linux computer. I'd like the
output to remain at 800x600, or maybe 400x300.

The command I run to capture is:
vncrec -depth 24 -record larry-test.vnc 10.0.0.61

An example of one of the many transcode commands I have tried is:
transcode -i larry-test.vnc -o larry-test.avi -y xvid4

Usually the screen is flooded with the following message:
[tcxpm2rgb.c:334] truncated 16 characters

The resulting video plays, but it only shows about 25% of the original
video window zoomed full size. The video is usually truncated and the
colors are weird.

Yoshiki Hayashi

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Jul 26, 2006, 12:06:19 PM7/26/06
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Hi,

Sorry for late reply. I hope you already solved the problem yourself.

On 1/18/06, newz2000 <matt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can someone provide a working transcode command that will convert a vnc
> session into some other usable format?
>
> Ideally, I'd like to take a screen capture recording and bring it into
> a video editing program where I can then work it into something that
> can be distributed.
>
> We're using Real VNC on a windows computer running 800x600 24bpp
> resolution and capturing on an Ubuntu Linux computer. I'd like the
> output to remain at 800x600, or maybe 400x300.
>
> The command I run to capture is:
> vncrec -depth 24 -record larry-test.vnc 10.0.0.61

I heard there are problems converting 24 bpp video. You might get
better result with 16 bpp.

> An example of one of the many transcode commands I have tried is:
> transcode -i larry-test.vnc -o larry-test.avi -y xvid4
>
> Usually the screen is flooded with the following message:
> [tcxpm2rgb.c:334] truncated 16 characters
>
> The resulting video plays, but it only shows about 25% of the original
> video window zoomed full size. The video is usually truncated and the
> colors are weird.

There's another way to produce video using vncrec, using the version
by Tilman Kranz.

http://tk-sls.de/ext/xcap/

Regards,
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Yoshiki

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