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Contents 1 Codecs 2 Screen Capture 2.1 vnc2swf 2.2 xvidcap 2.3 recordmydesktop 2.3.1 gtk-recordmydesktop 2.4 Screenkast 2.5 fraps 2.6 vncrec

[edit] Codecs

Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy)

http://wiki.ubuntu-forum.de/index.php/Codecs

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

w32codecs:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

[edit] Screen Capture

http://www.linux.com/articles/38221

[edit] vnc2swf

http://linuxgazette.net/102/washko.html

http://www.linux.com/articles/38221

http://www.linux.com/articles/113764

http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/

Vnc2swf captures everything that happens on the screen of a VNC desktop session and spits it out to a Flash-formatted video file. Flash is cross-platform compatible and appears on all flavors of PCs, Macs, and the Web. Browsers, in order to display your Flash video, must have the Flash plug-in installed. Not the only game in town <Other video formats and programs exist to capture screen video under Linux. vncrec can record screen videos, but you can only view the result when you run your video file back through the program with the -play option. An external program has to be used to convert the internal vncrec format to something usable, like MPEG, AVI, or animated GIF. All of those would work for video, but they require more steps and are more complicated to produce.

To get started with vnc2swf, download and build the program from the latest tar.gz file. You'll also need to download and build Ming-0.2a for Flash encoding. To view the video, make sure that you have the Flash plug-in installed for your browser. Once you've installed all the programs, start vnc2swf with a command like:

vnc2swf -startrecording -geometry 800x600 -depth 16 -framerate 5 rob1.swf 192.168.2.40:4.0

[edit] xvidcap

http://xvidcap.wiki.sourceforge.net/faq

http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/

The other category of video capture program that I found was called xvidcap. It also goes by the name gvidcap, with minor differences in the graphical interface.

Xvidcap is a standalone program that grabs video from your choice of location on the screen. It produces MPEG files that can be viewed using the standard Linux Mplayer program. You can also use Xine if you have the correct video codec installed.

[edit] recordmydesktop

http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/about.php

Captures audio-video data of a linux desktop session The application produces an ogg-encapsulated theora-vorbis file. recordMyDesktop tries to be as unobstrusive as possible by proccessing only regions of the screen that have changed

[edit] gtk-recordmydesktop

Graphical frontend for recordmydesktop Adds an easy to use graphical icon on the Gnome toolbar to make a pleasure use and configure the audio and video capture application recordMyDestkop Homepage: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net

[edit] Screenkast

Screenkast let you record your activities performed on a vncserver.It connects to the server and act like a windows manager, but when you close the viewer, it imports the recording and let you modify them by adding some fancy docs during the video. The resultant file is a .isd, but can be exported to many formats directly from screenkast. It also permit to connect to captorials.com where you can share your video documentation with all the people in the world.

[edit] fraps

windows only:

http://www.fraps.com/

[edit] vncrec

vncrec - simple VNC session recorder and player

http://www.sodan.org/~penny/vncrec/