Recent changes to feature-requests

Save as swf and edit and add note click to play buttons

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:44:18 -0000

Dear sir I am Mahesh I really liking this software it is very useful for preparing video tutorials. And i want develop my video-tutorials likes professional captures. For that i want to add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc. it is only down by saving it as flash file please take a look on the following product and website
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ . Thankyou sir

Option to save raw file to disk and encode later

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:02:23 -0000

For slower system, xvidcap cannot capture desktop smoothly because it did realtime video compression.

There should be an option to save the video to disk with a minimal fast compression method (RLE? LZO?) while recording. And at the end of the recording, encode the data to whatever codec the user choose.

Complete build options for Pthread API

Markus Elfring — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:00:21 -0000

Would you like to combine your checks for this programming interface with the capabilities from the configuration script "ACX_PTHREAD"?
http://ac-archive.sourceforge.net/ac-archive/acx_pthread.html
http://xvidcap.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xvidcap/trunk/configure.in?revision=274&view=markup

Improve const-correctness

Markus Elfring — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:48:53 -0000

Would you like to apply the advices from the article "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Const-correctness" to more places in your sources?
I suggest to add the key word "const" to the type specifiers for parameters like the following.
- http://xvidcap.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xvidcap/trunk/src/app_data.h?revision=289&view=markup
sopts (function "xvc_captypeoptions_copy")
filename (function "xvc_is_filename_mutable")
command, file (function "xvc_command_execute")
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/sox/sox/src/FFT.h?rev=1.1&view=markup

- http://xvidcap.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xvidcap/trunk/src/codecs.h?revision=293&view=markup
fps_string (function "xvc_read_fps_from_string")

Update project home page

Paco Avila — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:04:29 -0000

The project home page is several years old, and the screenshots are prehistorics :)

ALSA Support

Paco Avila — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:03:22 -0000

Actually sound is captured using OSS, but I think that actually ALSA is mature enought for a replacement.

improve audio quality

Karol Krenski — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:48:44 -0000

Hi,

I am the author of a couple of Inkscape movies:
http://www.inf.sgsp.edu.pl/lab/filmiki/filmiki.php

Those were recorded with gvidcap. The CPU didn't look quite busy (I noticed having X in Vesa mode is better than running under nv or nvidia, nvidia was too heavy for the CPU, strange...)

I am not happy with audio quality. Many audio frames were lost. I would understand if CPU load was 90%, but it was about 30% only.

I even tried to record the sound separately in another app. Quality was perfect, file a bit larger, except the combinated video+audio went out of sync pretty early :(

Any hope for audio quality improvement?

regards,
Karol

50% downscale

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:44:39 -0000

Would it be possible to get a 50% downscale? Encoding
1680x1050 is a tad heavy...

Jann - Ove Risvik (not logged in, forgot my login info,
and the recovery thing isn't working)

Minimize to system tray

Sean — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:09:06 -0000

Would be ideal if when recording starts, the xvidcap
toolbar is automatically minimized to the notification
area or system tray, as a single pause icon, which when
clicked on, stops recording and brings the toolbar back
into focus. That way you don't have to minimize the
xvidcap toolbar while recording (which you then have to
edit out of the finished product--one more step).

KDE/Qt port

a thing — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 02:01:17 -0000

Not very important, but if it's not too hard a KDE/Qt
port of the GUI would be nice.