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Malabarba / camcorder.el

Tool for capturing screencasts directly from Emacs.
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png outdir not available in mplayer #2

Closed wdenton closed 9 years ago

wdenton commented 9 years ago

My version of mplayer doesn't have an outdir option for the png driver, so it's choking there. The man page says: "Output each frame into a PNG file in the current directory." outdir is there for jpeg and other formats, though.

The mplayer version is MPlayer2 2.0-728-g2c378c7-2ubuntu3, on Ubuntu 14.10.

Not sure of the best way to handle apparently different versions of mplayer and the png driver, so no suggested solution yet.

Malabarba commented 9 years ago

I can't do it at the moment, but you can try using a cd command to manually enter the subdirectory and then calling mplayer.

Malabarba commented 9 years ago

Pushed a fix. Let me know if it worked for you.

wdenton commented 9 years ago

Thanks. But ... hmm. It works when I run each step by hand in a terminal, but M-x camcorder-record shows:

(recordmydesktop --fps 20 --no-sound --windowid 0x2401373 -o /tmp/camcorder.ogv && mkdir -p /tmp/camcorder/ && cd /tmp/camcorder/ && mplayer -ao null /tmp/camcorder.ogv -vo png:z=9 && convert /tmp/camcorder/* /home/wtd/foo.gif; rm -r /tmp/camcorder.ogv /tmp/camcorder/): exited abnormally with code 1

Malabarba commented 9 years ago

The full output of the command is displayed on a buffer of its own. I forgot the name now, but it starts with *.

Check that buffer, it might explain the failure.

Malabarba commented 9 years ago

Ok. The full output of the command is displayed on the *camcorder output* buffer. Could you check that buffer to see what's happening? The last few lines should indicate why it's exiting abnormally.