Aah those were the days, the height of Thatcherism and Red Ken still ruling a socialist London (she put a stop to that of course) Story here
Anyway, I digress, glc (https://github.com/nullkey/glc/ [Updated 2012 because of move]) is actually a fantastic way of getting video out of stuff that you’re rendering to screen.
The gamers love it because it means they can make videos of their games but I use it to make videos out of the Open Frameworks application that Peter Vasil and friends have written for me and Soph.
To install it on Ubuntu, you download the build script here, install the dependencies as per on this page which is a fantastic apt-get one-liner for Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libx11-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libasound2-dev libpng12-dev
Then you make sure glc-build.sh is executable and execute it!
This is what it prints to the terminal:
Welcome to glc install script!
Enter path where glc will be installed.
(leave blank to install to root directory)
> [left this blank]
Enter compiler optimizations.
(-O2 -msse -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer -mtune=pentium3)
> [also left this blank]
Use git (y/n)
(git contains latest unstable development version)
> n [decided on no to make sure I was installing the latest stable version]
Then you can start playing (more later)…