Recording the Linux desktop -- the hard way (Computerworld)

Over at Computerworld, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols tries to find a way to make screen videos in Linux. One of the main issues he ran into was creating videos in a format that Windows and OS X would handle. "After a number of attempts, I finally found my answer in Google Code: WinFF. Despite the name, this is actually an open-source front end to FFmpeg that works with both Linux and Windows. This program, by Matthew Weatherford, solved all my video conversion woes. It's straightforward, easy to use (once you have the appropriate video codex libraries installed) and does the job. Best of all, the program understands all the various flavors of AVI, so converting my OGVs into basic Microsoft-compatible AVIs was a breeze."

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