linux apps that can record your desktop/ make a movie out of it

[Didier Casse]

On 01/07/04, at 07:35 +0100, Daniel Stonier <snorri_dj at operamail.com> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Didier Casse <didierbe at sps.nus.edu.sg>
> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:32:55 +0800 (SGT)
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: linux apps that can record your desktop/ make a movie out of it
>
> > Hi all,
> >         Doesn anybody know any linux apps that can record things like
> > mouse movements and all the things you're doing on the desktop and can
> > output an mpeg clip out of it?
> >
> > I want to record my desktop and show people all the cool apps I have at
> > the moment via an mpeg clip. i.e make a movie out of it. Thanks.
> >
> > With kind regards,
> >
> > Didier.
>
> I've been helping a german guy called Karl make some FC1 rpm's for his xvidcap/gvidcap program. It allows you to capture a predefined portion of the desktop and output it as one of a few various movie formats or as a timed sequence of images you can later convert with the imagemagick tools to an animated gif or mng file. You can find it at
>
> http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/
>
> Personally I found it great to capture movies of my simulations to use in presentations.

Thanks Daniel. Yeah I needed something like that. I'll try it out!


With kind regards,

Didier.

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