recorded tutorials

[David Bandel]

On 5/3/07, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2007, David Bandel wrote:
> > On 5/3/07, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> >> I see some application tutorials made by recording the applications '
> >> screens when they are run. What tools can do that ? Do we have any
> >> similar tool under Linux ?
> >
> > I use xvidcap.  Works for me.  Creates an mpeg stream in an avi container.
>
> How large are the typical AVIs that you end up creating that way?

Wow.  Define "typical".  Obviously, the more of the screen you
capture, the (i.e., the bigger the box), the bigger the file and the
faster it grows.  Capturing an xterm box plus part of an mrtg graph
for approx 7 minutes resulted in a 4Mb file.

I have other files of from 1-4Mb in size.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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