HP-UX 10.20 X Window animation framegrabber utility

[Mike Mayer]

I'm looking for an HPUX utility that will allow one to grab an animation sequence, frame by frame, from an X Window that is displaying that animation. Then,store that animation sequence as an AVI or MPEG file. Essentially, start the application and let the framegrabber run on it's own grabbing frames as they are generated. Then stopping, thus allowing you to save the result to a file.

[Mike McKinlay]

You may be less than happy with the result, which will be affected by your workstation's resolution.

Have you checked into the applications' directory structure for the datafile(s) that generates this animation? Perhaps it is already in a useable format or can be run through a convertor.

[Bill Hassell]

While xwd will grab any window, it will take a significant amount of time and will generate a single image as stdout. Unless you can single frame the application (show 1 image at a time), there is no way to copy animation in realtime.

Even if you collect all the iamges (hundreds? thousands? of files), you would have to convert them to a more common format such as mpeg and then edit them all together. The application itself must create the animation output file.

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

I've been supporting graphics applications on hp-ux for over 3 years now, have seen requests for this before and agree there's nothing out there HP or otherwise that I know is capable / reasonable to configure to do this.