PlayOnLinux Capture feature

[booman]

Now you can automatically record the screen for your games in PlayOnLinux
Capture

I had no idea PlayOnLinux could do this in Linux. I'm going to try it out. Apparently you can record anything, not just games.
So those video guides might become a reality!

 

[Daniel~]

Ok, Now I've read it! ":O}

This is very cool! Have you tried it yet? can you post a home rolled trailer?

 

[booman]

Not yet, I will try it tomorrow morning... but if I can screen capture the desktop I will try doing some PlayOnLinux video tutorials

 

[Daniel~]

The World seems to be just dying to help us! ":O}

 

[booman]

I havn't tried the capture feature yet, read my post in crashed!

 

[Daniel~]

Sigh...Don't forget to modify your fstab file!! ":O}

 

[booman]

Wow, PlayOnLinux does not want to make it easy. I tried clicking "plugin" and then selecting "capture"
I would get an error about something missing. I would install it with apt-get and then something else would be missing.
Here is my list of everything missing. I'm sure there is a way to install all of it at once.


lame

sudo apt-get install lame

vorbis-tools

sudo apt-get install vorbis-tools

faac

sudo apt-get install faac

ffmpeg

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

ffmpeg2theora

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg2theora

libimage-exiftool-perl

sudo apt-get installlibimage-exiftool

oggz-tools

sudo apt-get install oggz-tools

oggvideotools

sudo apt-get install oggvideotools

mkvtoolnix

sudo apt-get install mkvtoolnix

transcode-utils

sudo apt-get install transcode-utils

gpac

sudo apt-get install gpac

recordmydesktop

sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop

The last one could not be found in apt-get, so I had to run Synaptic Package manager and search for it.
synaptics package manager: transcode and associated packages

After all of that, I can select 2 options when I run "capture"
1. opengl
2. non opengl

then I get 3 options
1. Begin the capture of an application
2. Play a captured file
3. Convert a captured file to video

Of course I want to do #1, but its kinda confusing. When does the capture actually start?
It will say "capture in progress" but then will go back to the 3 options.
Apparently its not working. Something about disabling pulseaudio.

I read on PlayOnLinux that you can start a capture with Shift+F8, but its not doing anything.
Help me figure this out

 

[Daniel~]

Help me figure this out

Boy I wish I was the guy to do that!! But I'll wait here with you until help comes or you figure it out...want some pop corn?

 

[booman]

Way to step up Dan!

I'll figure it out or at least find something else that will work.
I got it to record me using PlayOnLinux, not too helpful, but you are supposed to be able to record any program that PlayOnLinux runs. so if you run Internet Explorer 6, it should record it.

I'll keep playing around.
Ideally, I want to record the desktop so I can do a video guide.