Capturing Video (How I Did It)

"Gee, that's interesting. Let's see..."

# apt-get install xvidcap Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: xvidcap 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1333kB of archives. After this operation, 2839kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny/main xvidcap 1.1.7-0.4 [1333kB] Fetched 1333kB in 2s (473kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package xvidcap. (Reading database ... 107209 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking xvidcap (from .../xvidcap_1.1.7-0.4_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up xvidcap (1.1.7-0.4) ...

"Neat. Couldn't be easier."

Bigger doesn't always mean better, but it sure makes life easier for me.

Just installed it on my Slackware 12.1 box. Had to make a trip to slackfind.net first.

> Bigger doesn't always mean better, but it sure makes life easier for me.

That's the one real advantage Debian has over Slackware. There's an xvidcap package available for Slackware 12.1, but , AFAICT not one for 12.2.

Of course, the package for 12.1 may very well work with 12.2, and it doesn't break anything to try it. There's also a slackbuilds package for 12.1, which probably would work with 12.2.

@jdixon:

What SBo category is xvidcap under? I can't find it.

> What SBo category is xvidcap under?

It's not on Slackbuilds.org. It's on Eric Hameleers site:

http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/xvidcap/

He and Robby Workman have a number of otherwise hard to find things. Robby's packages can be found at:

http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/

A big repo makes things a whole lot easier.