Creating Runtime Video Captures

[Novabrain]

I was just wondering how feasible it would be to take screen captures one more step-up.

The current Screen Capture Ob jet does a fine job, but is only able to create .bmp frames without the help of a commandline DOS program to great a video file. Both methods create very large file sizes, as well.

Is it possible to have an extension with some sort of open source coded/compression that would either convert the bitmaps from MMF into either a full-sized AVI or a compressed format?

Or, on the other hand, create a new object that does both the capture and then the conversion to various formats.

[LIJI]

I think Sphax is making something like this.

[Sphax]

That's right. But I've not enough time to work on any extension these months...

Currently, the AVIs object can load a list of BMP files and a WAV file to create a video in AVI format. It works well with no compression but with a custom codecs it crashes a lot of time. I should debug it and update it...

[Novabrain]

Good news. I guess we are thinking along the same lines.

[Novabrain]

Also, this relates to the animation project.

While the whole idea is to make quick, compact, executables and .ccn's, users may also want to generate video files after the fact.