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How to configure Wi-Fi adaptor to monitor mode?

I have just successfully installed a driver (athk9_htc) for TP-Link TL-WN722N (a USB Wi-Fi adaptor) in Ubuntu 14.04.1. My goal is to capture Wi-Fi traffic with Wireshark. I try to configure the adaptor to monitor mode by running: sudo iwconfig wlan1…
eepty
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Logitech webcam - focus resetting

I want to capture images from a Logitech C910 webcam in intervals. Problem is that after a shot is taken, the camera resets focus, making the next shot unfocused. I am using v4l2-ctl to set the focus. $v4l2-ctl --device=/dev/video1…
Lukas
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Is there any screen recorder with zoom functionality?

I have Kazam as screen recorder, but it does not have real-time zoom functionality. On youtube, I saw some videos recorded under ubuntu and they are zooming in-out while recording. Do you have any suggestions?
wakeup
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capture login screen-not sucssecful

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 . If more information is needed, please tell me. I Tried some guides to cature my login screen: How can I take a screenshot of the login screen? http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-take-a-screenshot-of-your-login-screen I tried…
yinon
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Bash script to take screenshot and save the image - Ubuntu

I wrote a bash script as below: #!/bin/bash echo "Enter a file name" read filename import -window root $HOME/Desktop/$filename.png I expected this script to take a screen shot and save the image with the given filename on my desktop. Problem: My…
Prabhu Kl
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Getting a Conexant CX23885 TV Capture Card working

I'm new to Linux, and am trying to get my Capture Card working on 11.04. The only command that I know to run to find out any information is lspci, which tells me that I have 02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23885 PCI…
Benny Hallett
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How can I capture text from my terminal without redirecting it to a text file?

Basically, what I would like to do is, instead of just redirecting the out from my terminal command to a file, I would like to have the information also show in the terminal session. If I use ~$ command > output.log I am no longer able to see the…
Themiddaysun
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Take screenshots in background silently for archive purposes

During my work, I often try out tools of different complexity and develop usage and integration scenarios. I use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Sometimes if things get really complicated, I am not always sure how exactly I got to the solution, and for…
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Quick screen capture application

I'm looking for a quick screen capture application that simply brings up the screen selection tool (which part of the screen I want to capture) with some keybinding and saves it directly into some specified directory. In particular, I don't want any…
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Record TV program from VLC

I am using VLC 2.0.1 to watch TV (DVB-T) through my PCI TV tuner Is it possible to record a TV programm as an .avi or .mp4 file? Can I record it with VLC or another app?
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Taking screenshots from random frames of a video file

How can I take sequential screenshots from a video file using terminal? With ffmpeg I could capture a single frame, but I need something like this
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Video capture from usb or firewire

I want to capture video files from an older Canon digital tape camcorder. I have a dell computer with usb and firewire ports. I have 2 cables; one firewire to usb and one firewire to firewire so I can hook my camera to my pc. I need an easy way to…
Jerry Brown
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Running multiple pipelines of gstreamer simultaneously in sync

Thanks to help of "thiagoss" I made these pipelines below for gstreamer. one is capturing via Webcam and the other from frame grabber. The thing now is that I don't know how to merge them (I want both of them to record into separate containers) can…
Sina Sh
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Recommended USB video capture device

I'm going to do some reverse engineering on a device with a composite video output. It would be great if I could just plug this in to my Ubuntu box and be able to record video as well as view the live stream in a window while I'm working with the…
Arne
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Capture script output to add datetime to ouput in realtime

I'm looking to capture the output of a shell script execution in real time to enrich it with information giving the date and time. To illustrate, I have for example a script of this type that I must not modify: #!/bin/bash for i in 2 3 1 do echo…
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