[mythtv-users] Brainstorming clip extraction

[E James]

On 19/09/17 14:22, Josh Rosenberg wrote:
> Hi, MythTV users. Hopefully you can help me with something that might be a little out-of-the-box (unless this exact feature exists and I just don't know it!).
> 
> Sometimes I'm watching a recording and I want to extract a clip, either into a video file or (more commonly) a GIF. I know how I'd do this with ffmpeg, but it's a pain to pull out a laptop, pull up a command like, figure out the exact time indices I want, and so on. It would be awesome if there is (or if I could create) an interface through the frontend to do this. Maybe I'd pause at a start time, pull up a menu, and pick "convert to clip from this point". Maybe I'd enter a clip length or maybe it would just default to a particular length. Of course I'm not wedded to that technique; any solution that would work through MythTV would be fun.
> 
> Has anyone done this, or does anyone have any ideas for how I can do what I want?
> 
> Thanks!
> Josh
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette
> MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org
> 

Have you considered screen capture? I have found that SimpleScreenRecorder does an excellent job, even on limited hardware such as a netbook.