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Screenkey: advertised as a 'screencast tool', but is not about recording your screen Not convenient if you want to record your own screen (not tried) Pyvnc2swf: Is a tool to record a VNC session. Many have reported similar issue, this is a known bug. Kazam: if record area larger than ~640x480 memory starts leaking, leaving at most a few minutes before system becomes unresponsive. Best converter was mencoder but is speeds up video (but not audio) so they get out of sync. Gtk-recordmydesktop: creates ogg which is fine, but unable to convert to anything.

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This is the command line I used: avconv -f alsa -i pulse -f x11grab -r 15 -s 1024x768 -i :0.0 -vcodec wmv1 -acodec pcm_s16le -q 7 b4.aviīyzanz: creates animated gif (not tried, since I need sound as well and longer screencast)Įidete: unable to install (with 20 years of Linux experience, didn't try forever though) Hope it will save you several hours:Īvconv: audio and video get out of sync, audio is lagging behind. This is my summary/log which I wrote while experimenting. My system is Linux Mint 15 Olivia, 64-bit, which is based on Ubuntu Raring. In my case (after several hours of struggling) it was VOKOSCREEN which worked, so I did not look further. My goal was not to write a comprehensive summary of all tools available, but to find a single one which works. I tried many of the options listed here and other websites. Recently I tried to record a screencast with audio.

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Sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder-lib:i386įor Ubuntu versions 17.04 - onwards it is included in the universe repository and can be installed by: sudo apt-get update # if you want to record 32-bit OpenGL applications on a 64-bit system: Sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder It's 'simple' in the sense that it's easier to use than ffmpeg/avconv or VLC :).įor Ubuntu versions 12.04 - 16.10 it is not in the standard repositories and can be installed with the following: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder My original goal was to create a program that was just really simple to use, but as I was writing it I started adding more and more features, and the result is actually a fairly complex program.

There are programs that can do this, ' but I wasn't 100% happy with any of them, so I created my own '

SimpleScreenRecorder is a Linux program that I've created to record programs and games. Video can be saved in MPEG or AVI files format. It is intended to be a standards-based alternative to tools like Lotus ScreenCam.

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How to record sound output with it: xvidcap (no longer maintained, package is no longer available)Ī screen capture enabling you to capture videos off your X-Window desktop for illustration or documentation purposes. This will allow you to first select the window with a mouse click, and it starts recording after you click. You can select to record a single window as shown at: How can I get the value of Window ID? recordmydesktop -windowid `xwininfo | grep 'id: 0x' | grep -Eo '0x+'`

with: recordmydesktop -stop-shortcut=Control+s You can set a stop recording shortcut e.g. It should be able to do everything that gtk-recordmydesktop does, but it is a bit harder to learn as you have to deal with the command lines. I haven't seen any significant downsides to that option yet, likely it will just take a bit more of CPU resources, but it is generally worth it. on-the-fly-encoding encodes the output immediately without it you need to wait for a possibly long time at the end for the encoding to be done. This will record until you stop the program on the terminal e.g. This is the non-GUI backend of recordmydesktop, and it is still available in 20.04: sudo apt install recordmydesktop

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But this indicates that the software is not being actively supported.

I'm not sure why the link seems to work, maybe it installs an older version. Adds an easy to use graphical icon on the GNOME toolbar to make a pleasure use and configure the audio and video capture and screencast application recordMyDesktop.Īs mentioned at 20.04: Can't install gtk-recordmydesktop and on the package search, the package is not available on the main repository anymore, and sudo apt install gtk-recordmydesktop fails.

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