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1 Xvidcap FAQ * 1.1 General Questions o 1.1.1 What is xvidcap? o 1.1.2 Can I capture the mouse pointer? o 1.1.3 Can I record audio along with the video? o 1.1.4 You're saying FFMPEG needs OSS for audio capture. Will ALSA work, too? o 1.1.5 Recording sound does not work (or it only works for the microphone, not application output) o 1.1.6 Are there plans to port xvidcap to Windows? o 1.1.7 Will xvidcap work on a Mac, or are there plans to port it? o 1.1.8 Why does Windows Media Player play my captured videos upside down? o 1.1.9 Can xvidcap capture OpenGL accelerated graphics? o 1.1.10 Does xvidcap work with fullscreen applications, such as games like Cube? o 1.1.11 Is xvidcap able of capturing a running video? o 1.1.12 Does xvidcap get the array of pixels from the xserver or off the video card's buffer? * 1.2 Building o 1.2.1 After building xvidcap says "FFMPEG encoding not supported" o 1.2.2 The build complains about being unable to findcommon.h o 1.2.3 Why am I getting error about an "undefined reference to `pow'"? * 1.3 Installation o 1.3.1 Why do you not provide packages for distribution XYZ? o 1.3.2 On Solaris pkgadd complains about "no packages found" o 1.3.3 How do I install the Fedora RPMS and how do they differ? * 1.4 Usage o 1.4.1 Why does the button to capture a single image not work for me? o 1.4.2 Capture fails with "Could not find audio grab device ..." o 1.4.3 Why are the videos or single frames I capture always white or black? o 1.4.4 Running xvidcap I get an error message saying "xvidcap: error while loading shared libraries: libpng.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" o 1.4.5 xvidcap hangs on starting a capture session. What can I do about it? * 1.5 Encoding o 1.5.1 Why do my videos recorded with xvidcap play back too fast? o 1.5.2 How can I record videos for Windows Media Player compatibility? o 1.5.3 How do I improve recorded audio quality?

xvidcap is a screen capture enabling you to capture videos off yourX-Window desktop for illustration or documentation purposes.It is intended to be a standards-based alternative to tools like Lotus ScreenCam.