[sclug] video screen capture

[Ian Michell]

Simon Heywood wrote:

>I'm trying to find a way of recording a video of a GUI program in use,
>for a demo where I can't get a physical connection to the network that
>the program uses.
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>I've seen xvidcap, which I've been having a few problems with
>(segfaults, mostly); I wondered if any of you have tried this sort of
>thing before and used xvidcap or (better) something else.
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I have a sarcastic yet interesting idea: Grab the source to the program 
that GNOME uses to take screenshots, then put it in a loop, so it takes 
a screenshot over and over, and make it run for say 5 minutes? Then sort 
of use some mpg tools to convert the jpg files to a MPG movie :D done ;)