Recordmydesktop in Ubuntu

http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net
a nice screen/desktop video recorder, try it

note: you can now install it from the repository through ADD/REMOVE

installation command: sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop

you can find it in Applications menu --> sound and video --> gtk-recordmydesktop


Using Recordmydesktop

in command line console type the command recordmydesktop
you can stop the recording by pressing ctrl-c
or in gui-front just click record, and just click the white square on system tray to stop
the output is in ogg video format however you can convert it to avi by mencoder

example

Quote:
mencoder -idx input.ogg -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o output.avi
*note install mencoder if its not installed by doing
Code:
sudo aptitude install mencoder
then you can upload it to youtube or wherever.