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Make Screencasts in Ubuntu with gtk-recordmydesktop
Yeah, the name sounds cliche but man oh man is this app slick. Compared to some of the others I tried, this one _just_worked_ and had the options I needed, plus more.
sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop
You can select a specific window or an arbitrary area and it compresses to ogv automatically.
Here’s a quick video I recorded in seconds — http://z.nexuizninjaz.com/videos/nst.ogv
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about 2 years ago
Yep. And ‘glc’ for gaming.
about 2 years ago
Nice app, thanks!
about 2 years ago
What’s the difference between that and Istanbul?
about 2 years ago
Istanbul crashed when I tried to run it? This felt a lot more solid.
about 2 years ago
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about 10 months ago
gtk-recordMyDesktop (records video + audio) and gnome-sound-recorder (records audio) can record both the system and the microphone sound. To choose the sound to be recorded open gnome-volume-control (from ALT+F2 for example), click on Hardware, then on Profile and there choose the corresponding option, depending on what will be recorded ..:
+ sound of the system: a) Analog Stereo Output; or b) Digital Stereo Duplex (IEC958)
+ sound from the microphone: a) Analog Stereo Duplex; or b) Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output + Analog Stereo Input
In gnome-volume-control, it may be necessary to choose “Off”, close it, open it again, choose the desired option and close it again.
Some of the other options may work sometimes, but they may record sometimes the system sound and sometimes the mic sound. And other options may record audio but could not permit to listen to the recorded sound. So it’s better not to use those options.
NB: system sound is the sound of what one can hear from the speaker. It can be a .ogg or .mp3, … song played by Totem, or a Flash music video of a web site, …
But gtk-recordMyDesktop has 2 problems:
a) When you click on stop it takes a lot of time to encode the video (in xvidcap you have it in the moment you stop the recording).
b) It uses a lot of space in a folder called more or less /tmp/rMD-session-xxxx. Sometimes is deleted after the encoding but sometimes not (keeps on growing) and you have to delete it before your Linux root partition (/) gets full.
To be able to record the sound with xvidcap (from the mic or of the system) you just need to follow a few steps to install it properly:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1714139