On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 19:34 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On February 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > 1. Suppose I decide to put up short "how to" movies: screen captures > > showing how to do various things in a spreadsheet, for example. What > > format would be best? Quick time? Something else? > > for a simple screen capture, it's probably better to use something > like GIF or SWF, since more people have renderers for those formats > than for quicktime. > > Steve Kemp has a good piece on vnc2swf for capturing SWF movies here: > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/270 > > and byzanz seems to be an up-and-coming tool for making screencap > movies as animated GIFs: > > http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=1261
Hi all, Another option is 'istanbul' which captures to Ogg Theora. It's available in the ubuntu repositories. Cheers, Dave. -- David Symons Canberra, Australia http://launchpad.net/people/bimberi/ Ubuntu, Linux for Human Beings! -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel