Re:How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS
by justinlloyd on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:48PM
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I run a piece of software called TimeSnapper on my machine that takes a snapshot every 10 seconds of the entire desktop area. I have recordings going all the way back to the very beginning of 2006. It is incredibly interesting to watch some of those old recordings to see what I was working on that month.
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Re:How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS
by ShorsHammer on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @02:41AM
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This sounds amazing, essentially a video diary without the omissions of a real diary.
I'd love to see watch my work sped up like this. At 30fps you could see your entire day in 90 seconds.
Re:How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS
by justinlloyd on Saturday July 18, 2020 @08:26PM
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https://otakunozoku.com/video/working.flv
A month's worth of work in a couple of minutes. Captured way back in early-ish 2013. Sorry about the .flv, that's what web video kinda was back then if you wanted it to work on multiple browsers.
Re:How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS
by freedomben on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:00PM
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That looks cool. Too bad there's not a Linux version. I suspect you could code a screenshot every 10 seconds in bash pretty easily anyway.
Re:How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS
by o-__-o on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @02:33AM
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Drop this into a crontab with your desired frequency:
DISPLAY=:0 import -window root "$HOME/Pictures/screenshot-$(date '+%Y%m%d%H%M').png"
ImageMagick installed
Improvements
You can change the date +FORMAT for a more readable filename. See the date(1) manpage.
Caveats
You may need to change your DISPLAY to match your actual X11 server. You may need to add XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority depending on your X11 ACLs. Probably doesn't work with Wayland, but nothing works with Wayland so YMMV.