How do You Install XvidCap on uBuntu 12.04 Distro

Xvidcap is a small tool to capture things going on on an X-Windows display to either individual frames or an MPEG video. This software is not present in the Ubuntu 12.04 repository by default. You can get a copy of the distributed binary in the form of a .deb package at the following link.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/amd64/xvidcap/

Once you download this package, go ahead and install the package with the following command. The amd64 package given as example is for 64 bit machine.

$ sudo dpkg -i xvidcap_1.1.7-0.2ubuntu12_amd64

In case if the above command fails giving out errors, please note that Xvidcap depends on libavdevice-extra-53 package. So go ahead and install this package first with the following command.

$ sudo  apt-get install libavdevice-extra-53

By default, the Ubuntu 12.04 comes with libavcodec53 package. This conflicts with the  libavdevice-extra-53. In such a case, feel free to go ahead and replace the libavcodec53 package with libavdevice-extra-53. This satisfies the dependency requirement for Xvidcap.

Once done with setting dependencies, you can then install the Xvidcap package.

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