Half time

Homicidolls: 54 Convicts: 78

Full time

Homicidolls: 98 Convicts: 201

This is keeping with the Convicts usual pattern of getting better as the bout progresses, but its interesting to see how much larger the first and second halves are. It should be noted the Convicts ended on a 20 point power jam, so without the last jam of the game it would have been 98 - 181. IMO that looks quite respectable for the Homicidolls first outing!

Scoreboard and browser setup

For setup of crg-scoreboard please see its README or its wiki (The wiki has quite a bit of info on it these days, and should be a useful resource), or even its mailing list.

Launch chromium, and move a window onto each screen (Assuming you've already set up dual head displays). Your scoreboard will be on http://localhost:8080/ unless you have any site specific changes. Visit the scoreboards 'Video Feed Overlay Scoreboard' on the external monitors browser (This could be a projector, but I've not tested that yet), and 'Main Operator Control Panel' on the laptops screen (or your second screen, if not working with a laptop). Maximise the browser window showing the scoreboard (usually F11) so xwininfo will do the right thing

Scoreboard capture setup

Now, as long as you are running the scoreboard, you should be running recordmydesktop. For me, the command was

recordmydesktop --no-cursor --quick-subsampling --fps 2 --no-sound \
--on-the-fly-encoding --no-frame -o scoreboard-window-`date \
+%Y%m%dT%H%M`.ogv --windowid $(xwininfo |grep 'Window id' \
|cut -d ' ' -f 4)

In brief, the options do the following: disable the mouse from showing, lower the quality (its a three colour image, and over 90% is black), records two frames per second (The clock ticks every second, and thats the fastest updating thing on the board), disable sound (we produce none), encode on the fly (to minimise post recording waiting), don't display a border, the filename (including date and time to the minute) and the window to record.

The mouse will turn into a cross ('+') which you use to select the window you wish to record - the window containing the scoreboard.

Determine Window ID of your Video overlay scoreboard

xwininfo is a handy little command line utility that is included as part of x11-utils package and will show the window id of any window you select. Selecting the external monitor on my laptop gives 'xwininfo: Window id: 0x3cf5f67 "CRG SB Overlay - Chromium"' Take that value and give it to recordmydesktop.

Backporting Openshot

You need a newer Openshot then that in Debian squeeze (stable at the time of writing), we used 1.4.0 from testing as its new enough to have the features we need, and still install without changes.

wget http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openshot/openshot_1.4.0-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i openshot_1.4.0-1_all.deb

Thats it!

Installing the custom Openshot mask

I've added the mask Monica made to the files section of this site. We may end up submitting it upstream at a later date if we find its particularly useful or interesting to others.

The actual importing is fairly painless. Launch Openshot through the Applications menu or from a shell, then visit File -> Import New Transition. Browse to where you downloaded the file using the 'Select Transition' selection box and close the navigation box with OK once the file is selected. If you selected the correct image, OK in the Import Transitions box to confirm. Openshot will (hopefully) tell you the transition imported correctly and it will appear at the bottom of the Transitions tab in the UI.

Doing the overlay

Import all the clips (one at a time in older versions, multiple selection with 1.4). Add the bout footage to Track 1. Add the timing footage to Track 2. Get the scoreboard transition and drag it between the two tracks Right click the transition and select properties Length needs to be the full bout (Unless you use half time for something else, in which case you might want to do two halves). A full bout will be around 7200 seconds (2 hours). Importantly, change the Type from Transition to Mask. Do not modify Softness or Mask Threshold unless you have reason to. Apply to save the changes, and play your video in the preview window. Do any shuffling to the video that you need, then save your project.

Double check the two streams were synced correctly. If they are, its probably time to make DVDs.