Doesn't seem to work in Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

colinkeenan / silentcast

Create silent mkv screencast and animated gif.

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Doesn't seem to work in Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS #18

Closed DivineOmega closed 8 years ago

DivineOmega commented 8 years ago

I receive the error temp.mkv not found, so can't generate anything from it.

When running from the command prompt, I noticed silentcast appears to be looking for ffmpeg but attempting to run ffmpeg in this verison of Ubuntu returns ffmpeg: command not found.

For a bit of research, it seems avconv is the alternative in this version of Ubuntu.

DivineOmega commented 8 years ago

After a bit of experimentation it seems changing the call to ffmpeg in the genffcom file is insufficient. I believe the syntax of avconv differs, unfortunately.

Arkni commented 8 years ago

From README:

Ubuntu

If running Gnome, install Topicons
Install what you can with apt-get

$ sudo apt-get install bash libav-tools imagemagick x11-xserver-utils xdotool wininfo wmctrl python-gobject python-cairo xdg-utils
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/avconv /usr/bin/ffmpeg

Look for Download "yad" at yad, click the 32 bit or 64 bit version and let Software Center install it.

DivineOmega commented 8 years ago

I had missed out the creation of the symlink, however it has had no effect and I am still receiving the error temp.mkv not found, so can't generate anything from it.

DivineOmega commented 8 years ago

When ran from the command line, and selecting full screen capture, I received the following output.

jordan@azurite:~/.silentcast$ ./silentcast
/home/jordan/.silentcast
f
8
/home/jordan/silentcast
genffcom: line 222: ((: 0+1920
1680 > 1920
1680: syntax error in expression (error token is "1680 > 1920
1680")
genffcom: line 223: ((: 0+1200
1050 > 1200
1050: syntax error in expression (error token is "1050 > 1200
1050")
Unity detected, switching indicators...
avconv version 9.18-6:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the Libav developers
  built on Mar 16 2015 13:19:10 with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
:0.0+0,0: Protocol not found
/home/jordan/silentcast/ffcom: line 20: kill: (7663) - No such process
1
8
gif
/home/jordan

DivineOmega commented 8 years ago

Looking at the following lines, they seem to reference the resolutions of my multi-monitor set-up.

genffcom: line 222: ((: 0+1920
1680 > 1920
1680: syntax error in expression (error token is "1680 > 1920
1680")
genffcom: line 223: ((: 0+1200
1050 > 1200
1050: syntax error in expression (error token is "1050 > 1200
1050")

Could silentcast and/or one of the tools it uses not correctly support multi-monitor?

Arkni commented 8 years ago

See #9 and #16

DivineOmega commented 8 years ago

Thanks.

DivineOmega commented 8 years ago

Just tested from master. The merging of PR #16 seems to have resolved the issue here. :smile: