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passerinelabs on May 10, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: My customer wants me to record a video of how I de...

For OS X users, you can take a screenshot from the command line with /usr/sbin/screencapture, so putting together a little script to make a screenshot timelapse is pretty trivial. With that and ffmpeg you can replicate most of the functionality of my program in just a few lines of bash. :-)

vijaykiran on May 10, 2013 | [–]

Indeed :-) I use

brew install watch watch -n10 'screencapture `date +%s`.png'

msmith on May 11, 2013 | [–]

I put something like this together a while ago. I think it still works. Just two scripts, ffmpeg, and a cronjob. https://github.com/msmith/caps.

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