Streaming Xvfb screendump

[poul]

I am running Xvfb(1X) on a RedHat system, and I need to be able to present the screen.
I remember a cool tool from the old days xwatchwin(1X) which allowed you to spy on an X-display.
animate can almost do this, although it gives me a lot of flickering...

Xvfb(1X) can use a file as framebuffer:

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Xvfb -fbdir /tmp/fbdir

The screen is now available in /tmp/fbdir/Xvfb_screen0 - X window dump image data (same as xwd(1X)/xuwd(1X) uses)
I really would like to convert this file to an (ongoing) mpeg stream (watchable in a browser), but I can't find the correct tool to achieve this...

anyone got an idea?

thanks

poul

[anthony]

"import" command, or the x: input coder.

See IM examples, Image File Handling, X (input handling)
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/files/#x

You can specify the display to use using the DISPLAY environment variable.