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 REVIEW: 121705 M +53 -1 doc/index.docbook https://commits.kde.org/marble/45360c6fffcdd1edccbbc17b7805450039cd31fd diff --git a/doc/index.docbook b/doc/index.docbook index 895e446fd..9985aadf4 100644 --- a/doc/index.docbook +++ b/doc/index.docbook @@ -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>
