[marble] doc: Added doc about recording a movie with Marble
Albert Astals Cid
null at kde.org
Sat Jan 21 00:56:49 UTC 2017
Git commit 45360c6fffcdd1edccbbc17b7805450039cd31fd by Albert Astals Cid, on behalf of Sergey Popov.
Committed on 21/01/2017 at 00:56.
Pushed by aacid into branch 'master'.
Added doc about recording a movie with Marble
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https://commits.kde.org/marble/45360c6fffcdd1edccbbc17b7805450039cd31fd
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@@ -499,7 +499,39 @@
</para>
<para>
You can keep using &marble; while the <guilabel>Download Region</guilabel> dialog is open. This is useful to queue several downloads for different regions or different tile ranges. Just select <guilabel>Apply</guilabel> instead of <guilabel>OK</guilabel> to trigger the map region download.
- </para>
+ </para>
+ <chapter id="recording-movie">
+ <sect1 id="recording-movie-recording">
+ <title>Recording a movie with &marble;</title>
+ <para>
+ To record a movie with Marble, use this function for recording.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Begin recording from the <guilabel>Record Movie</guilabel> dialog in the <guilabel>Edit</guilabel> menu. Or you can start it by pressing <keycombo>Ctrl + Shift + R</keycombo>. You will see a dialog like this:
+ </para>
+ <screenshot>
+ <screeninfo>&marble; Record Movie dialog</screeninfo>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject><imagedata fileref="movie-1.png" format="PNG" /></imageobject>
+ <textobject><phrase>&marble;'s Record Movie dialog</phrase></textobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </screenshot>
+ <para>
+ Press the <guilabel>Open</guilabel> button to choose the name and destination directory of the movie. Also you can change the frames per second (FPS) of the movie between 1 and 60.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When all is set, you can start recording. To start, click the <guilabel>Start</guilabel> button. Once this is done you can zoom and pan around and Marble will capture a video of your journey across the globe.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To stop recording of the movie and save it, click <guilabel>Stop Recording</guilabel> in the <guilabel>Edit</guilabel> menu or press <keycombo>Ctrl + Shift + S</keycombo>.
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+ <sect2 id="recording-movie-troubleshooting">
+ <title>Troubleshooting</title>
+ <para>
+ There may appear an error message because avconv or ffmpeg are not installed. Download from <link linkend="http://ffmpeg.org/download.html">ffmpeg's downloads page</link> and <link linkend="https://libav.org/download.html">avconv's downloads page</link> or use packages from your distribution.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
</chapter>
<chapter id="commands">
@@ -638,6 +670,26 @@
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para><action>Allows</action> you to open the current map in the external map editor. The current version supports <application>Potlatch</application> (in a web browser), <application>Merkaartor</application> and <application>JOSM</application> map editors.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><menuchoice>
+ <shortcut>
+ <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl; &Shift;<keycap>R</keycap></keycombo>
+ </shortcut>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Record Movie</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice></term>
+ <listitem><para><action>Records</action> a movie with Marble.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><menuchoice>
+ <shortcut>
+ <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl; &Shift;<keycap>S</keycap></keycombo>
+ </shortcut>
+ <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Stop Recording</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice></term>
+ <listitem><para><action>Stops</action> the current recording of movie.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
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