Re: Screencast VP8/WebM support?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 10:38 -0500, Ryan Peters wrote:
> I have recently tried out the fantastic GNOME Shell built-in screencast 
> recorder, and while looking through the gconf settings for it, I was 
> reminded that it saves videos in Theora format. Since VP8/WebM has 
> proven to be a much better container and video codec, could it be used 
> by default or at least available as an option?

The option is there if you tweak the GConf settings. (yeah, writing new
GStreamer pipelines isn't for the faint of heart...)

Adel Gadllah has done some experiments with WebM pipelines with pretty
good success. The codec availability isn't yet to point where we'd want
to make it a default, I think.

> On a related note, is it planned/allowed to be able to record audio as 
> well as video?

It should be possible with the right GStreamer pipeline to record the
ambient audio into the recording.

(In general, I think overdubs do make for better screencasts... it's
hard to drive a screencast and talk coherently at the same time.)

- Owen