HowTo:ScreenCast

On Mac OSX, you should be able to create screen recordings from QuickTime (File -> Screen Recording).

There are two great methods for screen capture on Linux.

The first is an old-school terminal capture agent, ttyrec and ttyplay. They store and play back the traditional 80x24 color terminal to millisecond accuracy.

The second is a X-windows based capture from our friends at ffmpeg, and worked out by a friendly hacker . The command that worked for me was:

You can also single out a window using:

and the clicking in a window, adding (e.g.) the options to ffmpeg

The result can be compressed with

for a completely free file.

A range can be selected with, e.g.

The HTML5Video MediaWiki extension lets you play these formats easily within most modern browsers.