Comments on: Trivial Escape from Minimalist Island Timelapse http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/04/21/trivial-escape-from-minimalist-island-timelapse/ A tri-annual 48 hour solo game development competition. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:58:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: mjau http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/04/21/trivial-escape-from-minimalist-island-timelapse/#comment-1348 mjau Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:04:10 +0000 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/04/21/trivial-escape-from-minimalist-island-timelapse/#comment-1348 Thank you =) shizzy0, I used a script with an infinite loop that runs scrot and then sleeps for 30 seconds, so that it ends up taking a screenshot of the desktop every 30 seconds. (I've tried other screenshot tools before, but scrot is the only one I've tried that doesn't freeze the screen when it takes shots.) Anyway, that gives you a directory full of png files. Then you just have to combine them into a video, which I did with mencoder. Here's the command line I used: mencoder 'mf://*.png' -audiofile ~/Desktop/timelapse.mp3 -mc 0 -noskip -vf scale -zoom -xy 640 -mf fps=30 -o ../timelapse.avi -ovc lavc -oac copy -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 Thank you =)

shizzy0, I used a script with an infinite loop that runs scrot and then sleeps for 30 seconds, so that it ends up taking a screenshot of the desktop every 30 seconds. (I’ve tried other screenshot tools before, but scrot is the only one I’ve tried that doesn’t freeze the screen when it takes shots.)

Anyway, that gives you a directory full of png files. Then you just have to combine them into a video, which I did with mencoder. Here’s the command line I used:

mencoder ‘mf://*.png’ -audiofile ~/Desktop/timelapse.mp3 -mc 0 -noskip -vf scale -zoom -xy 640 -mf fps=30 -o ../timelapse.avi -ovc lavc -oac copy -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4

]]> By: saluk http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/04/21/trivial-escape-from-minimalist-island-timelapse/#comment-1347 saluk Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:59:35 +0000 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/04/21/trivial-escape-from-minimalist-island-timelapse/#comment-1347 Yeah I didn't test my timer code for post deadline :) I also had upload issues with mine and went a few minutes over, even though the code was actually finished 5 minutes prior. I was surprised to see my lovely clock spitting out some strange numbers! Cool timelapse. Fun to see your beautiful art coming together. Yeah I didn’t test my timer code for post deadline :) I also had upload issues with mine and went a few minutes over, even though the code was actually finished 5 minutes prior. I was surprised to see my lovely clock spitting out some strange numbers! Cool timelapse. Fun to see your beautiful art coming together.

]]> By: shizzy0 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/04/21/trivial-escape-from-minimalist-island-timelapse/#comment-1346 shizzy0 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:54:44 +0000 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/04/21/trivial-escape-from-minimalist-island-timelapse/#comment-1346 That's really cool. How did you actually get the time lapse footage? What application did you use? That’s really cool. How did you actually get the time lapse footage? What application did you use?

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