[Spice-devel] Recording the screen output of a spice channel

[Pavel Grunt]

On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 08:12 +0100, André Rodier wrote:
> Hello Victor.
> Thank you for your prompt answer. I will see what we can do.

Hi,
you can use a tool `recordmydesktop` to record windows of an application. Take a
look at its man page, it has several examples of usage (you can give it an id of
the window, or coordinates & dimensions)

Pavel

> Kind regards,
> André.
> 
> On 11 Jul 2017 07:22, "Victor Toso" <victortoso at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi André,
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 07:12:08AM +0100, André Rodier wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > I am using Spice on Debian Stretch, with libvirt. I need to record the
> > > screens of the virtual machines, in MPEG4.
> > >
> > > I wondered if there is a solution to record the screen output of a spice
> > > channel, and to convert it to MP4.
> > 
> > Something like this is desirable but not implemented yet, see:
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51714
> > 
> > >
> > > I know there is already a package to transcode a VNC channel to SWF, but
> > > I would rather use some standard like MPEG4, OGG Theora, etc.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > André
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >     toso
> 
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