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Announcement   Announcement : Screen Capturing Application Bounty
   posted by vox on 10-Jan-2012 23:20:48 (5400 reads)
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New suggested bounty open, please donate

AmigaOS is crying out for software that allows the user to record what is going-on on their screen.

With YouTube popular as ever - many AmigaOS users want to show off their operating system, and the applications and software available. At present AmigaOS users are expected to point a camera at the screen - this results in making AmigaOS look very un-professional and less appealing to potential customers. This is unacceptable.



This bounty is to produce a screen capturing tool that sets to achieve much higher recording speeds as well as recording audio than current implementations. The software should take complete advantage of new features found in AmigaOS 4.1 and AmigaOS 4.2 (when available) to record the display at the optimum speed.

The developer who accepts this bounty may choose to exploit the capabilities of the Radeon HD graphics card series as found (optionally) in the AmigaOne 500 and (as standard) in the AmigaOne X1000.
The developer should also aim to fully exploit Gallium/Mesa when it becomes available - again to make sure the Screen Capturing Application is realising its full potential.

Proposed features:

Save stream as AVI, MOV and/or other common formats
User can select any screen
User can mark any square of the screen
Software must record sound via AHI
Must record the movement of the mouse pointer
User can choose whether the screen capture is scaled or is record as-is
User can toggle a 'Follow my mouse' mode
    

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gregthecanuck 
Re: Screen Capturing Application Bounty
Posted on 12-Jan-2012 0:43:12
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@broadblues
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SRec is not slow. Encoding video on the fly is a highly demanding activity. If you choose realistic values for the frame rate and video size you can get a decent video at only 25% CPU on a Sam-Flex 733. No program whatsoever will encode a full HD screen at 30 frames a sec or what ever other unrealistic expectation people have.

The same issue is experineced on linux, with the various options available there, and no doubt on windows.

Small improvements are possible perhaps by saving the raw data stream, and then encoding afterwards, but file temporary size rapidly get out of control with that approach.


Perhaps a compromise? Do a very basic run-length encoding when saving the raw stream? Then on a second pass do the final encoding?

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Hans 
Re: Screen Capturing Application Bounty
Posted on 12-Jan-2012 0:58:59
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Broadblues wrote:
Well 1240 * 1024 * 4 * 25 (width * height * depth * fps) = 126976000 or 126Mb/s that's alot of bytes to write to a drive unless you have some striped raid array setup, which isn't supported on amigaos. So even with RAW you need to be conservative with your choice of video dimension and frame rate.


Since we currently don't have DMA/GART support for transferring graphics from the graphics card, you won't even be able to copy the data off the graphics card that fast. So, all CPU time is already used up before it even gets to encoding or writing to disk. Before anyone asks, it's on the to-do list already.

Hans


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djrikki 
Re: Screen Capturing Application Bounty
Posted on 12-Jan-2012 10:05:24
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I wasn't gonna ask, that is great news, gfx card support and a little tool to record with. Nice to know things are moving in the right direction.


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Tuxedo 
Re: Screen Capturing Application Bounty
Posted on 12-Jan-2012 13:23:02
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@Hans

only one thing...GART was planned to be available for all AmigaOS users or only for RadeonHD users?

@thread

IMHO the best choice was to contact Salas and ask him to improve SRec with a nicer GUI Eand functioanlity...
Why waste that good work?

@kas1e

thank you!


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Hans 
Re: Screen Capturing Application Bounty
Posted on 12-Jan-2012 20:08:57
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@Tuxedo
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@Hans

only one thing...GART was planned to be available for all AmigaOS users or only for RadeonHD users?


GART has to be implemented on a per-graphics driver basis. Personally, my plans are for the RadeonHD driver, but I'm sure that there are plans for older Radeon cards too.

Hans


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Posted on 12-Jan-2012 20:44:57
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@Hans

thank you for reply!

keep up good work!


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