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I am often envious when you sound and video experts present your videos on youtube etc. I can record my desktop with gtk.recordmydesktop.
It creates this out.ogv file and I started out converting it for youtube with
The quality was nothing to cheer for so I installed mencoder. And the last decent result i got was when i converted it like this:


Her is the output of mencoder -ovc help

Is this the top of the pyramid , the top of the pops?
I doubt it - so please help me wizards:
How do you do it?

First of all, in gtkrecordmydesktop, check where the /tmp file is going to in Advanced. By default, it tries to put it into root's /tmp, and it can't go there. Change it to your /home/youruser/tmp folder. Start there, and we'll go from there.

Edit: Also, install tovid, and use it.

A I do not find anything in gtkrmdt to alter the /tmp settings but I have made a lot of videos so I guess it works.
B Installed tovid and tried:



no luck

Click "Advanced" - then you'll see it there in the first tab. I just had to change it myself.

Just as a heads up too, not a good idea to run tovid with --noask. All you need is tovid -in <filename-with-extension> -out <filename-without-extension>. This will give you a file in .mpg, yes, but that's best quality anyway.

Yes I had already taken care of the working directory.
What about tovid? How vill it make my videos that I want to upload to youtube beautifull?

Sorry, see edit above. ^^

Also, see man tovid.

Give me a few, and I'll send a vid of me doing it.

gtkrecordmydesktop is encoding a vid now, then I'll have to do another one. Hang tight.

Could you give me the output of yaourt tovid?
I installed it but no reaction to any command in my CLI.
It does not seem to work in Arch

Oh, crap. I already closed it. :\

BUT, I can tell you that it's not working because mplayer isn't working in Arch. Here's the relevant snippet of the log file from my first video in tovid:

I wish they'd fix that f*ing thing already.

Which also ffmpeg and mencoder rely on working, btw.

damn mplayer!

There's your problem, Boss, and mine too. :\

I'm srsly thinking about uninstalling the Arch version, and trying the one straight from the site.

Que?
Forgive me I am a greenhorn in these matters. But I have made and converted videos in Arch with mencoder and ffmeg already.
I guess this tovideo needs something else!
Any other hot programs that will make brilliant quality?
(BTW b1o stated that he had sound in mplayer on Arch - dont know I guess I will have to hook up some loudspeakers now)

tovid requires mplayer to be working. See log above ^^

I've uninstalled the Arch version, and am installing via svn from the site now. You could try handbrake or mkvmerge if you want. *shrug*

I ended up reinstalling the Arch version. mp3 playing in command line now with no sound.

Yet it says it's playing back. Just like before. Dang! And, it's not listing as an application in pavucontrol.