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Since WEBM compresses videos very efficiently, I’ve started using videos more often. For example, in Prototyping the prototypes and in Using game-playing agents to teach. I use a fish script to compress screencasts like this: # Increase quality with lower crf= (55 is default, 45 is better/larger) # and higher fps= (5 is default, 10 is better/larger). screencastcompress --crf 45 --fps 10 a.webm b.webm ... To record the screencasts, I prefer slightly automated approaches for ease and quality. ...

“Screen-scraping” takes on a more literal meaning." Jaidev Deshpande and I scrolled through Twitter, recording the screen at 1 frame per second, and passed the video to Gemini 1.5 Flash 8b to extract all the tweets. It worked well, and cost 0.04 cents. Given its incredibly low image token count (~250 tokens / image) and cost (7.5 cents per million tokens), you can process 24 HOURS of video for just $1.62. ...

Capturing movies on the fly. Comments Sumit Dhar 30 Nov 2005 1:28 am: SnapZ is a Mac only application? For Windows, I use VirtualDub. Not very intuitive or easy to use, but does the job. S Anand 30 Nov 2005 11:07 am: So do I! It’s pretty effective. I do my video compression on VirtualDub as well.

How to make a movie using Google Earth Comments Jayant 16 Jul 2005 5:48 am: Good stuff. Wish I worked at Google