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This is a post for me…

ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/06/08/how-to-create-a-screencast-in-ubuntu/

I figured out how to get xvidcap working in Dapper (gvidcap crashes for some reason).
1. Download the .deb file of xvidcap from http://www.jarre-de-the.net/computing/debian/

2. You’ll have to correct the libpng.so.2 error by doing:
$ cd /usr/lib
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0.1.2.8 libpng.so.2

3. Launch xvidcap:
$ xvidcap

Works great and it’s much easier!

Sorry to make so many comments. Just finished doing your howto and it works quite well.

I prefer the Flash format for screencasts so I’ll probably use pyvnc2swf (it has a GUI too by the way) but it’s nice to know how to capture to avi/mpeg4.

Trying to get my iRiver ifp 890 to work with amarok was my Everest. I had already conquered many of the smaller hills leading up to this, like player firmware upgrades via a linux gui for the 890 and getting my collection into ogg format, but this final hurdle was a stretch…even for me.

I didn’t want to use the ifp driver, I wanted drag and drop simplicity that the UMM firmware provided. I also did not want to apply a kernel patch, I am running Kubuntu Dapper flight 6 and who knows what that might do to my daily apt-get dist-upgrade.

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Not sure if the above how-to will work, but will have to give it a shot. REMEMBER TO BACKUP

its easy to get back to the standard konquerer profiles

sudo rm -r /usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde-profile/default/share/apps/konqueror
sudo cp /usr/share/apps/konqueror/konqueror-orig.rc /usr/share/apps/konqueror/konqueror.rc

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Not my screeny, but soon will be