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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: vasouv on Mon, 22 September 2014, 03:37:52
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Hey people. I'm in the process of writing my thesis and I'm making a JavaEE 7 application. I want to do some sort of tutorials, or explaining guides or sth. Instead of doing the usual text + pics articles, I thought of doing videos.
BUT my laptop is quite old and I don't think it can handle the weight of the recording software. Is there any way I can send the signal from the VGA laptop port to my desktop, so I can capture it that way?
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Some sort of remote control software, like VNC maybe, would send the images to the faster computer. That would then only have to capture video from that window.
Any reason why you can't do the programming on the desktop?
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Hey people. I'm in the process of writing my thesis and I'm making a JavaEE 7 application. I want to do some sort of tutorials, or explaining guides or sth. Instead of doing the usual text + pics articles, I thought of doing videos.
BUT my laptop is quite old and I don't think it can handle the weight of the recording software. Is there any way I can send the signal from the VGA laptop port to my desktop, so I can capture it that way?
use ur school lab
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you can get a video capture box and plug it in to the VGA port.
Software solutions like VNC or other screencasting might still work.
If you are using a CLI, then there is no issue, even with extremely old hardware.
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One vote for vnc. Worth a try at least since it doesn't require any additional hardware.
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Good afternoon, sorry for not responding till now, health issues and later limited time prevented me from doing so.
Just yesterday, I tried Camstudio to record video on my laptop and it's surprisingly nice! A bit sluggish to be honest but it gets the job done, I'll stick to it.
To answer your question rowdy, I mostly do my coding on my laptop and when I'm out of the house, desktop is out of reach :P
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One vote for vnc. Worth a try at least since it doesn't require any additional hardware.
2 votes for vnc, tightvnc is fairly lightweight and easy to use.