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dbermond / screencast

Interface to record a X11 desktop
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Get lossless MKV, no encoding #9

Closed 0x41mmarVM closed 4 years ago

0x41mmarVM commented 4 years ago

Is it possible to just get the FFV1 MKV file with no encoding? I can see the file ends up in my tmp folder with the name {my_output_name}-lossless.mkv after the second stage encoding is done, which is great, but can I skip the second stage altogether? I'm open to modifying code if that seems best, but I'd appreciate a quick pointer on what you think might be the fastest way to do it.

dbermond commented 4 years ago

You can use the --keep/-K option for getting the lossless video, but skipping the encoding step is not supported.

Can you please elaborate on the reasons you have for skipping the encoding?

0x41mmarVM commented 4 years ago

I'm creating a container that requires some configurability, in certain cases it is desirable to do the encoding later, on a faster machine. I realize the benefits of using Screencast as opposed to directly interfacing with ffmpeg are reduced in this case, but it's not the default usage.