Use ffmpeg, add support for multiple monitors #146
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The main motivation for this was to speed up the script (see #6). I also added support for an arbitrary number of monitors (see #10).
It now takes around 0.3 s on my desktop and 0.6 s on my laptop (0.2/0.4 if you use
-pixelate
).The method is to build up a
filtergraph
forffmpeg
. The stages of the filtergraph are as follows:Missing features and problems:
ffmpeg
handles capturing the desktop now, I removed the customscrot
command part, so you can no longer set custom flags e.g. imposing a delay. I don't think this is a huge problem as you can create your delay before executing the script.xrandr
to figure out the size and location of all the displays. It's probably not ideal but I couldn't find an easier way.