SimpleGuide

Install some needed packages. there may be a lot more though!

apt-get install xviewg-dev libxv-dev build-essential libtool

First you need to install seom, the backend that does att the hard work

# fetch the source
svn co svn://dbservice.com/big/svn/seom/trunk seom
cd seom

# the usual installation procedure
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

Now you can install yukon. SVN revision 67 of the build.sh script is broken on Ubuntu systems. Ubuntu has /bin/sh linked to dash which is quite different from bash. This breaks some assumptions in the script. a work-around is to run the script through bash explicitly:

# fetch the source
svn co svn://dbservice.com/big/svn/yukon/trunk yukon
cd yukon
bash build.sh

Edit your yukon configuration file

vim ~/.yukon/conf

file contents should look like:

OUTPUT = file:///home/username/bzz.file
FPS = 20
HOTKEY = F8
VERBOSE = 4

Run yukon and tell it to run glxgears

./tools/yukon glxgears

Start capturing by pressing the hotkey (F8 in this example) then quit after some time BR Encode the file into foo.avi

seom-filter ~/bzz.file | mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=3000 -oac mp3lame -o foo.avi -

Watch it!

xine ./foo.avi