Screen video recorder

[lionfury]

Would it be possible to have a plugin that records a video of what is going on on the screen? This would be useful in spotting bugs and posting video reviews of Rockbox on YouTube. Thanks!

[Strife89]

Use a simulator and a screen capture tool like CamStudio for your video reviews.

I personally doubt that any DAP will be able to record video of its own screen without nearly grinding to a halt from the load.

[Grahack]

I'd suggest Wink for lightweight video captures. I'd like to see its free (open) equivalent though.

[SpawnHyuuga]

I would think that the only DAP that could even possibly handle the most beginning aspects of a video recorder plugin would be something like a Gigabeat S/F/X. Maybe an iPod Video - but I really don't think anything below that could possibly handle such a prospect. As Strife said, you're much better off using the simulator.

[AlexP]

The ipod video has the same CPU (speed wise) as most of the other ipods, sansas, etc. - a dual core 80 MHz chip.

[SpawnHyuuga]

I think the Video has more RAM though...

[soap]

I think the Video has more RAM though...

The 60/80GB videos have 64MB of RAM.  All the other iPods have 32MB, plenty.

[funman]

It should be very easy to do, and the bottleneck is not the CPU in any way.

Just use plain old bitmaps and you'll only be limited by storage speed.

Clip @25fps needs 25kbps
ipod video @25fps needs 3.66mbps
ipod video @5fps needs 732kbps

You can find plenty of tools to do the encoding of bitmaps to a real movie with your PC

[lionfury]

Then what about at least improving the screendump feature. It atakes almost 15 to complete taking the picture.

[AlexP]

Feel free, it isn't exactly high priority.