How do you get good video quality -gtkrecordmydesktop Topic is solved

[dedanna1029]

No wonder. mplayer-pulse is out of date in yaourt (aur), and at the time, I'm not so sure that b1o had pulseaudio going. I do.

[viking60]

Well I sure have sound on my Arch box now. Mplayer works just fine. tovideo does not. I do not have pulseaudio - Why should I?

[dedanna1029]

Yep, that's what it is. Lack of pulseaudio support in mplayer. :\

I need pulse for several things.

[viking60]

Ok I have got Mplayer working with pulsaudio. Guess what made it work? I removed tovid. I played a mp3 file with smplayer. That is the mplayer gui front end right?
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And then I reinstalled tovid and now it works! AHHH life is good. OK now I have got everything working according to your instructions. What do I do?
Kan you give me a short how-to on making the perfect video?
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Hmm I have had a look at it it does not seen to be made for converting ogv files to avi as far as I can tell.
tovid runs a lot of processes and they fail. The log says it could be memory ,mplayer you name it. It creates the folders but converting ogv to avi comes out with a blank.

[dedanna1029]

Yeah, that's why I said earlier, it would do it to mpg.

I'm still playing with this. Problem is, I can't do sound at all right now LOL. For a good reason. (See "the other" section of the forum in a few)

[viking60]

OK I play around with it and see what i can do. thanks.

[dedanna1029]

I can now, too, and will, if I can ever wake up. lol

[dedanna1029]

Okay, Boss. Things to try:
avidemux
mkvmerge
re-record then retry ffmpeg & mencoder

[viking60]

OK thanks.
I have been researching a bit about this now, and I have concluded with the following. Many programs out there are just a collection of scripts so I decided to make my own.
How hard can it be right?
Well here I am a sh.. load of coffee later:
This is the quality the script generates - it is fairly good. I used this script for this one and it is an instruction on how the script works:

And here is the script; save it in your videoklipp folder and run it from there. Now it sure can be improved so please do! b1o ! rvause ! I dare you

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#!/bin/bash
###By VIKING60. More usefull stuff on http://bjoernvold.com/forum Please improve this and let us know there!
###You need to install Mencoder to make this script work
###Some color definitions to start with. I like to have them all even if I don't use them.
red='\e[0;31m'
RED='\e[1;31m'
blue='\e[0;34m'
BLUE='\e[1;34m'
cyan='\e[0;36m'
CYAN='\e[1;36m'
NC='\e[0m' # No Color

while [ ! -e ${word}.ogv ]; do
echo -e "Hi, please type the name of the ogv file: \c "
read  word
# What we are dooing while you don't get the video name right:
echo -e "${RED}${word}.ogv does not exist - check that you are running this script from the video folder${NC}"
done
# Confirming that you have entered an existing .ogv video
echo -e "${CYAN}Very good, the file exists! The the file you entered is: $word.ogv${NC}"

#Entering the out file here. It can be anything you want as log at it is an acceptable filename:
echo -e "Can you please enter the name of the avi out file? "
read  word2
 echo -e "${cyan}Very good! you have entered the infile: \"$word.ogv\" and the outfile: \"$word2.avi\" Some patience now please..."

 # Doing the stuff!
echo  `mencoder -idx ${word}.ogv  -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o ${word2}.avi`

#This will open nautilus and run your newly created .avi video,
#To open the new avi file directly change this line to `nautilus ~/videoklipp${word2}.avi` where videoklipp is the name og your folder
#If you use Gnome you should replace "dolphin" with "nautilus" here.
#You must change "videoklipp" to the name of your videofolder (where this script is)!
 
echo -e `nautilus ~/videoklipp`
break
exit 0

It generates this CLI line:

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mencoder -idx yourinputfile.ogv -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o youroutputfile.avi