asl

The Auto Screen-lapse Tool

Introduction

asl is a resource-inexpensive way to create timelapses from your screen.
It takes screenshots at intervals (``asl``) and uses ffmpeg to convert
them into a video (``asl-timelapse``), optionally archiving them

Installation

Just pip install asl_screenlapse

How to use

Daemonization is flexible. Run ``asl`` at bootup, with DE Autostart, WM
config, systemd service, etc. It will take screenshots in
``$HOME/asl-scrots`` at intervals, but if more than a certain time
passes between them (i.e. different boot), it will create a new numbered
folder.

Whenever you want, run ``asl-timelapse`` to create timelapses in
``$HOME/asl-summaries``, named according to folder number and in the
WEBM format.

Example output

.. figure:: asl-example.gif :alt: example

example

See also asl-example.webm

Quirks

-  The non-\ ``pip`` dependency of ``ffmpeg``, with no way to specify it
   in ``setup.py``
-  The usage of ``os.system()``
-  The ``ffmpeg`` command being written for Linux, so it doesn’t work on
   Windows

Todo
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-  ☒ Install scripts
-  ☐ Configuration in .ini format
-  ☒ Make it available on the PyPI
-  ☐ Cross platform - using ffmpeg bindings rather than ``os.system()``
-  ☐ AUR Package
-  ☐ Automatic archive zipping
-  ☐ Timelapse from archive