Recording Desktop Without Compression Using X Events?

[pcpa at mandriva.com.br]

Quoting Michael B Allen <ioplex at gmail.com>:

> I would like to create instructional videos of my desktop (mostly typing
> into XTerms but occasionally showing a browser).
>
> However, the videos I have seen are not acceptable quality. It seems
> most X desktop recording tools simply record a collection of images or
> convert to a video stream that results in a variety of compression and
> scaling aberrations.
>
> I would like to know if there is a desktop recording tool that records
> X events and then generates video that considers this information such
> that compression is not necessary (or rather the X events *are* the
> compression).
>
> Does such a tool exist?
>
> Mike

  Some time ago I was trying to remember the name of a program that
could do it...

  Check http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee/

  I think it may have limitations, and probably you will want to play
the record in something like a Xnest with fixed dimensions.

  Good Luck,
Paulo