Hi, I’m proud to introduce you gLapse v0.1, a GUI GNU/Linux tool to make time lapse videos of your Ludum Dare work progress. gLapse allows you to take desktop screenshots at fixed intervals and glue them together in a time lapse video. I developed it because there only were command line tools to make time lapse videos on Linux… until now!

Features

• Take .png screenshots at a custom time interval and with variable quality.
• Make videos from using the saved screenshots with custom FPS.
• Multilanguage: English and Spanish for now (more translations are welcome!).

Installation

gLapse is very easy to install if you use a Debian related Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Linux Mint:

1. Download the .deb package.
2. Install it.
3. You can run gLapse from your applications menu or by typing “glapse”.

If you don’t use a Debian related distribution, these are the needed steps:

1. Download the source package.
2. Decompress it and access the folder using a terminal.
3. sudo make install
4. You can run gLapse from your applications menu or by typing “glapse”.

License

gLapse is licensed under the GPL v3 conditions, its free software and I will happily receive code contributions or new translations :-).

Feedback and more

I’ve intensively tested gLapse but if you ever find any problems, please report them to the issues sections at the Google Code site. It’s quite easy and it would be a great way to contribute.

I would like gLapse to appear in the time lapse tools section, that would be really awesome. I think gLapse could help many Ludum Darers who are not experts using command line tools or simply prefer GUI applications.

Tags: Debian, gLapse, GNU/Linux, Google Code, GPL v3, time lapse, tools