From: Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Date: 2004-10-08T16:11:37+09:00
Subject: Ruby screen capture movies via ImageMagick

Inspired by the videos available on http://www.rubyonrails.org but
disappointed when trying to render the .mov format on my linux box,
I was looking at the instructions at

  http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/03/04/screen_capture_movies.html

for doing a screen capture with ImageMagick and converting the stills
to mpeg.

Their 6 line bash script to create the initial series of stills became
3 lines of Ruby.

However, I'd like to automate the whole process of capturing, converting
to mpeg, and so forth.  I started thinking that I should be using the Ruby's
ImageMagick binding, RMagick, etc.

Then I thought: I should just ask here because someone has probably
figured all this out already...

Regards,
-- 
Bil Kleb, Hampton, Virginia