[Etoys] Screencast with linux

[K. K. Subramaniam]

On Saturday 09 Aug 2008 12:21:31 pm Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> Yes I know it, this is the tool I used by default for the demo I
> produce, but I found the quality not optimal.
> I was wondering about a lossless solution for the initial motion capture.
> Then the video can be used for video editing with Cinelerra or Kino.
> Maybe something base on vnc or with other RLE compression...
ffmpeg is another option if you need better control over formats :
   ffmpeg -f x11grab -i :0.0+100,200 .. 

will start grabbing X display at offset 100,200. The EXAMPLES section in the 
man page for ffmpeg has more details.

HTH .. Subbu