Recording what the user do

hi,
i'm thinking about an application which can record the actions on the screen and save this as an .mpg file.
The only problem is, how i can get images of the screen so i can make a video out of it.
I thought about making screenshots and save this images, but is this a good solution or do you know a better one?
Pls help me,
thx,
thomas

you're right... not only is it not necessary fast, but it'll consume major memory. If you want to provide playback, then I would suggest recording the state of the application in time slices (you could even record the mouse position and draw a mouse pointer later). During playback, you just iterate through the states and render what the game looked like at that time slice.

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