Note to Gentoo users: you'll need to compile ffmpeg with the `X` flag
enabled to get the x11grab video input device.
+If you can't get ffmpeg to work, an example `recordmydesktop` command
+looks something like:
+
+ recordmydesktop --height 600 --width 880 --channels 1 --overwrite -o ramdisk/setup.ogv
+
+Some benefits recordmydesktop:
+
+* it uses `libxdamage` to only monitor regions of your window that
+ have changed (I'm not sure how ffmpeg's x11grab works).
+* it doesn't encode the video until after encoding finishes (although
+ you can encode on the fly if you like).
+
[Xvidcap]: http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/
[recordMyDesktop]: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/
[ffmpeg]: http://www.ffmpeg.org/