No Save Button or Option in XVifCap

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I’ve finally managed to install and run XVidCap and after I record a short video I can click the play button and play the video but I can’t save it. I’ve checked the help file and it looks pretty straightforward except that there’s a screenshot of the popup window that comes up after you stop the recording and in the screenshot there’s 2 save buttons. A Save As and a regular Save button. But when my window pops up there are no save buttons?

Using openSUSE 11.4 with GNOME desktop.

Thanks in advance:)

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Did you install from Packman repo?

If install ffmpeg you can also do a screen capture like this

ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 15 -s 1280x800 -i  :0.0 -vcodec libx264 -vpre lossless_ultrafast -threads  0 output.mkv

You might need to adjust the screen dimensions to suit you (1280x800) (Change as required)

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Thanks yes I did install from the pacman repo. And thank you for the code but I much prefer a GUI when doing something like this. I’m not very comfortable using terminal yet. As a matter of fact I tried it and didn’t know how to stop it, LOL.

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I just checked and it’s working fine

You know that as soon as you press play the file is saved to your /home/*username
It is named test-0000.mpeg
I just let it do that and then rename each one as required

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Yes I see that it works but it is a pain in the butt and you have to remember to either rename it or move it otherwise it gets overwritten. The app should work right though. I should have the option to save or save as. I’m surprised that after all these years there isn’t a more full featured app available for screen video, even a commercial one.

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There is another one called
recordmydesktop