In this article I will review a technique that enables one to capture live desktop video from a N8x0 and possibly from Nokia 770 as well. I used usb-networking to get better latency for the recording.
The YouTube video can be found here.
So the good thing about this is that one shouldn't need a video camera to capture an application presentation.
But here are the instructions:
- Setup your networking method. I chose to use usb-networking.
- On the computer, install recordmydesktop (in Ubuntu, run
sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop ). - On the tablet, edit /etc/init.d/x-server as root. In ARGS row, edit the arguments to be:
ARGS="-ac -mouse tslib -nozap -dpi $DISPLAY_DPI -wr"
Please note that doing this will enable the X-server to listen on tcp and disables the access control. Re-enable these security methods by changing ARGS as:
ARGS="-mouse tslib -nozap -dpi $DISPLAY_DPI -wr -nolisten tcp"
when you have completed your recording session to minimize the risk of X-server misuse. Also remember to reboot the tablet when you have re-enabled these settings. - Reboot the tablet.
- Re-enable networking, if you used usb-networking.
- Now, run on the computer:
recordmydesktop --no-shared -display $TABLETIP:0 -o yourvideo.ogg
Replace $TABLETIP with your tablets IP-address, mine was 192.168.2.15. So the -display parameter was 192.168.2.15:0. - Start your recording :).
- Stop the recording by pressing CTRL-C.
Additional notes:
- Remember to convert your video to AVI, for YouTube uploading. I used ffmpeg, mencoder should work as well.
- Use --no-sound parameter in recordmydesktop to disable sound, if you don't have a microphone.
- For multiple takes, use --overwrite parameter to overwrite the previously recorded video.
2 comments:
You can also instal x11vnc on you n810. So you can run a VNC server in you n810¡. And then you can record the client vnc you are runnig from you desktop.
very easy¡.
Thats actually a LOT slower method to do than mine and it is even more insecure by now.
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