Video Screen Capture

Today, while reporting a simple (but still stupid) bug in Gmail here, I had to create a video to reproduce the error as I experience in my machine, so I took a look at the screen capture applications available for linux.

Among the options, although command-line based, RecordMyDesktop was the one I used. To have it with a proper GUI would help, but you can manage to do whatever you need just by reading the help available.

recordmydesktop --no-sound -y 75 -width 800 -height 600

Note: I added some extra options (didn't want to capture the entire desktop).

ffmpeg -i out.ogv out.flv

And you may see the result in Youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBBwEaA-MJ0

Nice and easy!