Capturing screen action to a movie file, how?

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Thanks a TON, I will give these a try... Just one question (before I 
embark myself in this endeavor) Is it possible to use VNC locally? Thanks!!

Gian

James Laska wrote:

>Gain Paolo Mureddu:
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>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vnc+flash&btnG=Google+Search
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>The above link has a few hits.  I've used vnc2swf in the for
>demonstrations.  There is also a vncrec utility available, but I'm not
>as familiar with this.  
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>Enjoy,
>James Laska
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>On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 12:42 -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
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>>    I was wondering how easy would it be to do capture screen action to 
>>a movie file... What I want to do do is something similar to what Apple 
>>has done to show off their OSX where you can see some on-screen actions, 
>>like opening X or Y program, then switch tasks, etc, etc. I was 
>>wondering if there is a program for Linux (ok, for X) that would allow 
>>you to do exactly that, and then be able to transcode that into an .ogm 
>>file, for instance. If so what's that program and where do I get it??
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>>I want to do a series of tutorials for my family, but instead of me 
>>being present at each computer, they could only open the file, see how a 
>>certain task is done and that's about it. You could say I want to do 
>>some Linux marketing too :-P
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