- XVidCap
Infobox_Software
name = XVidCap
caption = working software
developer =Karl Beckers
latest_release_version = 1.1.7
latest_release_date =13 July ,2008
operating_system =BSD ,Linux ,UNIX
genre =Screencast
license = GPL
website = [http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/ xvidcap.sourceforge.net]XVidCap is a free software used for recording a
screencast or digital recording of anX Window System screen output with an audio narration. Screen capture tools are very handy for developers to document software and installation procedures. They can also used by Educators to help prepare tutorials for other software.XVidCap is intended to be a standards-based,
open source alternative to commercial software such as Lotus ScreenCam for UNIX platforms and is similar to Camtasia for Microsoft windows.Features
XVidCap works using an on-line encoding facility with the
FFmpeg libavcodec / libavformat. It can capture any movement on an X11 display either as single frames (like a number of JPEG images) or it can encode the captured frames to a video on-line. It can also grab and embed an audio recording provided users have an OSS compatible system and FFMPEG libraries with compiled audio capture support.History
Rasca Gmelch developed an early version that was able to capture to individual frames and save them in individual screenshot files. Whilst this approach requires considerable storage, these files could later be converted into a video with tools like transcode. As Rasca had no further time to maintain his code, the project and code was migrated to SourceForge byKarl Beckers where it is currently under development.See also
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Screencast
*List of screencasting software External links
* [http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xvidcap/ Source forge project home page]
* [http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/ Instructional videos and FAQ]
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