Is there any better way to capture the screen than PIL.ImageGrab.grab()?

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Published on 2012-09-25T20:58:08Z Indexed on 2012/09/25 21:37 UTC
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I am making a screen capture program with python. My current problem is PIL.ImageGrab.grab() gives me the same output as 2 seconds later. For instance, for I think I am not being clear, in the following program, almost all the images are the same, have the same Image.tostring() value, even though I was moving my screen during the time the PIL.ImageGrab.grab loop was executing.

>>> from PIL.ImageGrab import grab
>>> l = []
>>> import time
>>> for a in l:
        l.append(grab())
        time.sleep(0.01)


    >>> for a in range(0, 30):
        l.append(grab())
        time.sleep(0.01)


>>> b = []
>>> for a in l:
        b.append(a.tostring())


>>> len(b)
30
>>> del l
>>> last = []
>>> a = 0
>>> a = -1
>>> last = ""
>>> same = -1
>>> for pic in b:
        if b == last:
            same = same + 1
        last = b


>>> same
28
>>> 

This is a problem, as all the images are the same but 1. 1 out of 30 is different. That would make for a absolutly horrable quality video. Please, tell me if there is any better quality alternative to PIL.ImageGrab.grab(). I need to capture the whole screen. Thanks!

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