Taking a screencast on N900
 

Sorry, if this is answered elsewhere - but really looked and looked :)

I have the opportunity to use the N900 from time to time and would like to be able to record screen sessions - and not only screenshots.

Does anyone know how to do that ?

I use Load-Applet for screenshots and it is supposed to do screencast recordings too - but the clips end up without any content.

Anyone ?

Re: Taking a screencast on N900
 

ctrl + shift + p :)

Re: Taking a screencast on N900
 

What does that do?

Re: Taking a screencast on N900
 

That's for screenshot, yes.

But Screencast is different thing, it's like recording video from the screen.

Re: Taking a screencast on N900
 

I've got the same problem myself.

Re: Taking a screencast on N900
 

What version are you using?
I think the version 0.4.5-2 should work (it's in extras-devel), but the previous ones lack the gstreamer module necessary to record screencasts.

Re: Taking a screencast on N900
 

It must still be missing because I'm running 0.4.5-2 and I'm getting the all black recordings still.

Re: Taking a screencast on N900
 

Just tried it and it's all black too. The developer has built its own gstreamer module, and it must be somewhat broken.

With previous versions I had it working, just copying the gstreamer module from the SDK package to the right place.

Workaround: install the version from extras-testing (0.4.4-2), copy libgstximagesrc.so to /usr/lib/gstreamer0.10/ and don't update load-applet until this is fixed.

Re: Taking a screencast on N900
 

How do I get access to /usr/lib ... The File Manager who is part of N900, does not show those folders.

Re: Taking a screencast on N900
 

emelfm2 or midnight commander

They are great file system managers! I use emelfm2, so I'll show you how using that...

Start xterm
make sure you have a root program, like rootsh or gainroot
become root (by typing "root" or "sudo gainroot" or whatever)
type emelfm2 and press enter
Then browse to /usr/lib (its just like in windows explorer)
ta da!!!

I am not sure if these programs are available for N900, this is for N8x0.

You can always access this from the command line and use mv to move files.