capturing a desktop demonstration as a movie

[Micah]

guru at Sisis.de wrote:
> El día Wednesday, March 01, 2006 a las 11:13:19AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng escribió:
> 
>> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 11:49 +0000, freebsd wrote:
>>> guru at Sisis.de wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is there somehow a tool (in the ports) to capture a (KDE-) desktop of
>>>> FreeBSD while doing a presentation of some kind of software to create
>>>> a movie of this, for example as a *.avi file?
>>> There is an application called wink:
>>> http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php
>> There's also one called xvidcap. captures screenshots and then uses
>> ffmpeg to put them as a movie.
> 
> Thanks for all hints. I gave xvidcap (from the ports) a try and in
> general it is able to capture the desktop and make a mpeg (...) movie
> on the fly. But even for capturing 800x600 with only 5 frames per
> second it runs in 'missing frames' sometimes and my notebook is 
> *very* fast. :-((
> 
> 	matthias

I had the same problem when recording a demonstration and ended up using 
vnc2swf instead (records a swf animation).  I couldn't get xvidcap to 
work with anything but really small windows, which was useless since I 
was trying to demo a web application.

HTH,
Micah