Any good desktop video capture?

[Kraust]

I need to record a window, I've tried a few capture programs before but they weren't that good.

So any recommendations? It needs to be pretty light weight, and able to capture a single Window not the entire desktop.

If it helps I'm running ubuntu 8.10

[inobe]

in synaptic search for recordmydesktop

[Kraust]

That's the one I've been using. I was hoping for something rlse.
Though thanks anyways.

[Simian Man]

I like istanbul.

[arvevans]

gnome-screenshot --interactive

[Kraust]

Istanbul works really nice. It's a bit less laggy (I have an old computer) than recordmydesktop.

Thanks.

[sdowney717]

istanbul works once thru, then it will not work. I saved a video, then restarted a recording and could not stop it. Ended up killing the process.

[0per4t0r]

You could try hypercam 2, but if it isn't compatible with ubuntu, then just use wine to use it.

[rylleman]

Or use VLC which now has a quite nice desktop recording feature.

[B4RR13N705]

I was looking to record my desktop. I tried Istambul but the video get cut every moment that i move the mouse! I also tried recordmydesktop but when i exceed a minute (i think) the software crash. Any idea?

[ubulaptop]

I tried Istanbul.
But it isn't so good, because it isn't so clear picture.):P

[.EpiiC]

I have been using RecordMyDesktop but I wasn't pleased with the quality after uploading to youtube. Is there a way to improve RecordMyDesktop's quality?

[kylepotts]

I use Xvidcap(http://sourceforge.net/projects/xvidcap/) and it works well with me. As long as you keep the window size to 800x600 you get a pretty good video when uploaded to youtube. You can see some examples at my blog.

http://kptechblog.com/2009/04/07/linux-terminal-tip-alias/ Most of my videos are done with Xvidcap