I would like to know if anyone knows of a quality screen capture uitlity for linux that captures ALL dynamic inputs:
-keyboard
-mouse
-window changes

and converts the captured result to a video file. I am tring to put together a Demo for my thesis as a training tool.

thanks in advance!!

-Brian

The only thing I can think of is setting up
VNC and using rfbproxy to do the
recording, and later on vncviewer for playback.

HIH, or someone can come up with a
better solution ;)

Edit: OK, so I thought that's not that great,
and looked on freshmeat :) ... have a look
at http://namazu.org/~satoru/x11rec/

Cheers,
Tink

You can try Krut Video Screen Capture. I use it and it is very stable and easy to use. You will need Java to use it.

I'm not sure, but doesn't recordmydesktop do all of that?:

http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php

I tried both and found Krut to be better, although that couild be my setup (Centos 6 minimal with Fluxbox) recordmydesktop generated a lot of stuttering which made it unstable to use, whilst Krut is rock solid.

VLC captures also...?

I use ffmpeg but too many parameters to remember also frequent errors

[anton@Centos ~]$ ffmpeg -f x11grab -s wxga -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq ~/mymovie.mpg
FFmpeg version 0.6.5, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jan 29 2012 17:53:48 with gcc 4.4.5 20110214 (Red Hat 4.4.5-6)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --shlibdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --incdir=/usr/include --disable-avisynth --extra-cflags='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i686 -mtune=atom -fasynchronous-unwind-tables' --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libdirac --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaadbin --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --enable-shared --enable-swscale --enable-vdpau --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab
libavutil 50.15. 1 / 50.15. 1
libavcodec 52.72. 2 / 52.72. 2
libavformat 52.64. 2 / 52.64. 2
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libavfilter 1.19. 0 / 1.19. 0
libswscale 0.11. 0 / 0.11. 0
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
[x11grab @ 0x8644880]device: :0.0 -> display: :0.0 x: 0 y: 0 width: 1366 height: 768
[x11grab @ 0x8644880]shared memory extension found
[anton@Centos ~]$

On the FFmpeg subject I am going to keep trying ffmpeg but looking for a cheat sheet for all the commands/parameters for both screen capture and conversion of video files, anyone know of one ?

Thanks.