Desktop Recorders (was: Suggestions for Edubuntu Syllabus?)

[David Symons]

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 19:34 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> On February 27, saddingt at csusb.edu said:
> 
>  > 1. Suppose I decide to put up short "how to" movies: screen captures  
>  > showing how to do various things in a spreadsheet, for example. What  
>  > format would be best? Quick time? Something else?
> 
> for a simple screen capture, it's probably better to use something
> like GIF or SWF, since more people have renderers for those formats
> than for quicktime.
> 
> Steve Kemp has a good piece on vnc2swf for capturing SWF movies here:
> 
>   http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/270
> 
> and byzanz seems to be an up-and-coming tool for making screencap
> movies as animated GIFs:
> 
>   http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=1261

Hi all,

Another option is 'istanbul' which captures to Ogg Theora.  It's
available in the ubuntu repositories.

Cheers, Dave.
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David Symons
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