
README for VideoGrab
====================

Name:                   VideoGrab
License:                LGPL
Maintainer:             Mathias Gumz <gumz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
Initial Author:         Mathias Gumz <gumz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
Additional Libraries:   avcodec:avformat (ffmpeg.sf.net, version >= 0.47)
Added:                  2003/09/05
Last modified:          2003/09/05
Last tested:            2003/09/05

Description:

VideoGrab adds a new foreground that can create a movie file of the running
application. It uses the avcodec lib (see link) to encode the grabbed images
into different movie formats, derived fro the used extension. See
testAVCodecForeground.cpp for an example on how to use it.

If you're new to video encoding, take a look at 
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt for some hints on sensible
parameter values.

This is a first version, comments and fixes welcome. ;)

Have fun

    Mathias
