"xvidcap is a screen capture enabling you to capture videos off your X-
Window desktop for illustration or documentation purposes. It is
intended to be a standards-based alternative to tools like Lotus
ScreenCam...
capture things going on on an X-Windows display to either individual
frames or an MPEG video. On Windows machines there are commercial
tools like Lotus ScreenCam or Camtasia which do a very good job esp.
for the purpose I was needing such a tool for: Software documentation,
esp. installation procedures and such."