Record your desktop with recordmydesktop ;)

[loell]

yeah, i also notice that the file encoding had gone drastically smaller than the the video file encoded in previous version, all the while i thought that ogg encoding takes up a lot of space than avi.

[berteh]

I got an old but stable distro, so just made recordmydesktop 0.3.6 packages for Ubuntu Dapper, no JACK sound support compiled though.


recordmydesktop 0.3.6 deb package for dapper (http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=44618&stc=1&d=1190987003)

gtk-recordmydesktop 0.3.6 deb package for dapper (http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=44619&stc=1&d=1190987003)

[Nooreazy]

I use sound recorder works wonders!

i believe the code is
sudo apt-get install sound-recorder
programs light and easy to use

[rainwalker]

I hope this hasn't been mentioned anywhere in the 26 pages of this thread, but is it normal for recordmydesktop to run exreemmeeellyyy slow while running Beryl?
I'm trying to record all the neat stuff it can do, but it goes way too slow!
And yes, I know there are ones on youtube I could use but I want to do it myself.

[MyR]

is it normal for recordmydesktop to run exreemmeeellyyy slow while running Beryl?

performance is generally a function of your computer's hardware capability: cpu speed, ram, hdd speed, etc. try lowering the frame rate and using the other performance enhancements on recordmydesktop. hope this helps.

peace

[loell]

theres also a misconception, that all those youtube beryl videos are recorded through recordmydesktop et al , when in fact many of those, are recorded with a high performance videocam.

though this doesn't mean that recordmydesktop can't do a decent recording with beryl , its just the performance varies from pc to pc.

[bubble_bobble]

Hi, neat program.

I want to add voice commentary added with a microphone to a movie file. After trying Kino and a couple other programs, I stumbled upon recordmydesktop.

My goal is to add audio to a video file on my computer. recordmydesktop does work well for me. RMD captures the video on my desktop and captures my microphone audio alright, but when I open a video file in mplayer, RMD doesn't capture the video or audio of that video file, and displays a black box instead.

Is there a method I am overlooking that will allow me to capture a video file from mplayer as well as capture microphone audio with this program? Can anyone suggest a program that can do what I need done?

A video demonstration of my dilemma: Will edit with a video when youtube "processes" it. It's nothing very revealing though.

I want to see if I can complete this project using only Linux.

Thank you!

[Adler]

bubble_bobble,

This might be long shot, but did you convert your .ogg/Vorbis output to .avi?

Try this in Shell:

mencoder -o output_file.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vbitrate=5000:vhq -ffourcc DX50 -oac pcm -srate 48000 -ofps 25 your_movie.mov

I assume your Vid is in your Home file. Then where it says "your_movie.mov", change it to /home/whatever/your movie name. Click, and your vid gets converted to an .avi file. It might take a minute or two. The .avi should land in your Home file.

Adler

[bubble_bobble]

bubble_bobble,

This might be long shot, but did you convert your .ogg/Vorbis output to .avi?

Try this in Shell:

mencoder -o output_file.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vbitrate=5000:vhq -ffourcc DX50 -oac pcm -srate 48000 -ofps 25 your_movie.mov

I assume your Vid is in your Home file. Then where it says "your_movie.mov", change it to /home/whatever/your movie name. Click, and your vid gets converted to an .avi file. It might take a minute or two. The .avi should land in your Home file.

Adler

Yeah I tried different video files, and all give the same result, a black box in the recorded desktop video.

[Adler]

Yeah I tried different video files, and all give the same result, a black box in the recorded desktop video.

bubble_bobble,

Again - a long shot. Do you have all the mencoder components installed or can't you record? Normally, you should get some kind of output. Do you have anything in your /Home folder?

Adler

[eye208]

My goal is to add audio to a video file on my computer. recordmydesktop does work well for me. RMD captures the video on my desktop and captures my microphone audio alright, but when I open a video file in mplayer, RMD doesn't capture the video or audio of that video file, and displays a black box instead.
This is because video output does not really go to the desktop window but to a hardware-controlled overlay window instead. It's separate from the desktop and cannot be captured by RMD (as far as I know).

Some video players can be configured not to use XVideo or OpenGL overlays but X11 video instead. But this will increase CPU load and degrade visual quality when the video is scaled up or down.

Instead of using RMD to add the voice-over, I would recommend using Audacity to record just the audio and then a video editor (such as Blender's sequence editor) to mix it with the original audio/video. You can always use tools such as mplayer/mencoder/ffmpeg to separate or replace audio and video streams. If done properly (using stream copy mode) this will not affect the image quality of the original video at all.

[Adler]

eye208,

Now what a minute.

I run Linux Mint Cassandra. I pick a simple music track from my music Library and run it using Audacity. I get it to play in the background, the simply click gtk-recordMyDesktop, and start recording things.

I've no need to mix, or mash what is going on with my Desktop. I'm running those cool 3D Desktop managers for a while now and record them when I want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sBaQZAAn4s

I simply think that this thread has now become too confusing.

Adler

[loell]

adler,

i think eye208 made his technical point , as the previous post/page is asking why he can't record a video played in a player, thus eye208 explained and suggested it.

[Adler]

loell,

Thanks for correcting me. I do know that getting this all done is an important element for success.

At this point I don't think that I can not offer any more support.

Adler

[loell]

I do know that getting this all done is an important element for success.


i'm not quite sure i get what you mean, since a support thread is just a support thread.


At this point I don't think that I can not offer any more support.


that's just fine, people do come and go in different threads, and this thread won't be an exception.

see ya around ;)

[Adler]

that's just fine, people do come and go in different threads, and this thread won't be an exception.

loell,

We come and go in Threads, Forums, and Linux distros. But, want to see everyone have success with Ubuntu, and those .deb distros.

Adler

[loell]

loell,

We come and go in Threads, Forums, and Linux distros. But, want to see everyone have success with Ubuntu, and those .deb distros.

Adler

I still don't understand what this has got to do with the thread topic recodmydesktop

anyway, best of luck.

[Adler]

I still don't understand what this has got to do with the thread topic recodmydesktop

loell,

I think that I was one of the original posters here. If not, I worked my way through an ATI Notebook card, then Beryl, Compiz-Fusion.

Should there not be recordMyDesktop included with Ubuntu?

I think that is my point here regarding recordMyDesktop.

Adler

[loell]

adler,

you really are confusing me, and I am starting to question your intentions on your recent successive posts, which is not helpful to the thread.

you can refer to the first page of the original posters if you are unsure if you are one of orginal posters.

Should there not be recordMyDesktop included with Ubuntu?

yes there is recordmydesktop in the repo for fiesty and also in gutsy which originally came from debian.

but this thread was created before fiesty, to offer recordmydektop for edgy at that time.

and the hope to give feedback to iovar for the benefit of recordmydesktop project.

you never had to announce your withdrawal of support, whatever that may be.

as anybody can ask questions and anybody can post answers in the thread.

-loell

[Adler]

you really are confusing me, and I am starting to question your intentions on your recent successive posts, which is not helpful to the thread.

loell,

I'll not post again here. I'm against against such responses.

Adler

[bubble_bobble]

Thank you very much Adler for your suggestions.

eye208, that looks like helpful support you gave, and now I know there exists a program called Blender's sequence editor that sounds like it is worth using to complete my task. Thanks.

[brennydoogles]

I wrote a little script to convert the ogg outputs to avi as prescribed in the first post (just to make things simple. To run it, simply place it in your path (either /usr/bin or your own personal bin/ folder if you have added your own path), navigate to the folder with the screencast and type ogg2avi.sh screencast.ogg while replacing screencast.ogg with the name of your ogg file. It will ask you what you would like to call your avi, and type the desired filename without the extension, and voila! You have an AVI!

[loell]

nice little script :)

[brennydoogles]

nice little script :)

Thank you very much!

[brennydoogles]

I wrote a little script to convert the ogg outputs to avi as prescribed in the first post (just to make things simple. To run it, simply place it in your path (either /usr/bin or your own personal bin/ folder if you have added your own path), navigate to the folder with the screencast and type ogg2avi.sh screencast.ogg while replacing screencast.ogg with the name of your ogg file. It will ask you what you would like to call your avi, and type the desired filename without the extension, and voila! You have an AVI!

ok, I have made a few changes to the script. Now, it will create a ~/screencasts directory, inside of which will be a folder for ogg's and avi's. after it converts the screencast, it will now rename the ogg to the same thing as you had it name the avi, and move both to their respective folders in your new screencast directory. I am also trying to find a way to have the script autorun after a screencast is taken, in which case you will have two copies of the video after every screencast, a youtube version, and an ogg version.

[RAV TUX]

http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net
a nice screen/desktop video recorder, try it :)

update: available package for the latest version 0.3.6 fiesty deb package

notable improvements: more efficient, and snappier than the previous version






update: recordmydeskop is on fiesty repository, sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop gtk-recordmydesktopfor beginners you can also install it through ADD/REMOVE applications

3.1 dapper deb package

recordmydesktop 3.1 (http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=21416&stc=1&d=1166662741)

gtk-recordmydesktop 3.1 (http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=21415&stc=1&d=1166662741)




==============================================

download the two edgy deb packages
edgy deb package (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=19714&d=1164066359) -- command line

gtkrecordmydesktop edgy deb package (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=19713&d=1164066359) requires recordmydesktop
-- gui-front-end



Using Recordmydesktop

in command line console type the command recordmydesktop
you can stop the recording by pressing ctrl-c

or in gui-front just click record, and just click the white square on system tray to stop

the output is in ogg video format however you can convert it to avi by mencoder

example


*note install mencoder if its not installed by doing sudo aptitude install mencoder in command line

then you can upload it to youtube or wherever.

video sample(s)
by Sandman32 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FZ9N_YEo3g (beryl 0.1.2 burn and water effects)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJWYSfGvITA(warcraft III demo)
by Sandman32http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwzsrpHRxtY(beryl /water effect)
by iadanr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF7FgWcIxg8(beryl)


enjoy :)Will this work in Gutsy and in e17?

[Adler]

Thank you very much Adler for your suggestions.

bubble_bobble,

Well, thank you for that.

brennydoogles,

Thanks for your script!

Adler

[loell]

Will this work in Gutsy and in e17?

yes, definitely, and there is recordmydesktop on gutsy repo.

[Adler]

Hi All,

I've a lot of YouTube videos going regarding Linux 3D Desktops using Beryl and compiz-Fusion. I've recorded these with recordMyDesktop.

What I would like to do is add / edit all these uploads to include an introduction screen e.g. one slide to show / tell what the viewer will be looking at.

Basically, I would need a video editor, but I am not sure what to use.

BTW, here is my latest upload to YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evle8rSxaDE

Thanks for any help here.

Adler

[godofwar]

nvm asked a dumb Q. works greaT!

[kr0n1x]

i made a video with gtk-recordmydesktop.

the file is ok, but i've a problem playing it. i found the "fix" here: http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/faq.php#I

there's a problem with the resolution of the video (same as my screen resolution), and the problem there is also if i convert the ogg to avi with mencoder.

can i resize the video? (ogg and avi...) i don't know the command to resize a video :) can anyone help me? thanks

[Baby Boy]

Help, I can't make a video of my desktop. The program just freezes at 0% when it starts encoding when I want to save the video. :confused:

[Scimu]

Thanks a lot.. Works perfectly under Gutsy Gibbon!

[flyingsolo]

I'm having the same problem--it doesn't seem to be actually encoding and sits at the 0% level. (Gutsy, compiz running) Would like to use for Gimp tutorials for local photo club.

[loell]

and you are using the version from gutsy repository?

[flyingsolo]

yes-just reloaded it to be sure via synaptic; if I run in command line, it seems to not detect sound device. I have a logitech USB headset with microphone attached. I would have thought the 'video' component at least would have been captured maybe with silence on audio channel.

OK--few hours later but now I tried a capture with 'audio' selection turned off & it works perfectly fine so the issue I originally had is related to audio detection.

[loell]

hmm, its seems this does happened even in later versions? we'll gonna have to wait for iovar to figure this out or possibly fix this.

[Baby Boy]

yes-just reloaded it to be sure via synaptic; if I run in command line, it seems to not detect sound device. I have a logitech USB headset with microphone attached. I would have thought the 'video' component at least would have been captured maybe with silence on audio channel.

OK--few hours later but now I tried a capture with 'audio' selection turned off & it works perfectly fine so the issue I originally had is related to audio detection.

Yep, it's working perfectly now, thanks a lot.

[flyingsolo]

Yep, it's working perfectly now, thanks a lot.

Well, I would suggest it isn't 'perfect' if the video and audio can't be recorded together. (I know you can work around by doing audio in audacity but isn't it the goal of the program to allow integrated audio and video recording?)

[Adler]

Hi Guys,

I had to get back here. I went back to Ubuntu, through SuSE, then Linux Mint to get the correct code to change those .ogg outputs to go to YouTube.

You have to love Linux Mint!

[eggdeng]

Seems there are still no packages for edgy in the repos. Loell's links are still good though. Thanks for keeping it up to date.

[maxxum]

This is a great app. I love it. Thanks for making it. Sometimes I record multiple sections of the screen simultaneously and it becomes difficult to keep track which taksbar icon corresponds to which section being recorded. It would help if there was some mechanism to distinguish between them. I know this would be hard to implement, if at all possible. One would think that each taskbar icon would be of different color and the recording black box corresponding to that icon would be of the same color.
Regardless, it is an extremely useful app and all I need to figure out is how to record sound using the alsa mixer.

[orvils]

All the videos I record on my laptop are in graycale :( On my other PC everything is fine.
Does anybody know how to switch between color/grayscale mode?

[whaase]

Very cool program, but i find it jittery when recording. System really bogs. Any ideas?

[stmiller]

Very cool program, but i find it jittery when recording. System really bogs. Any ideas?

Get a faster computer? :)

*ducks*

[Adler]

Guys,

I've done a lot of 3D Linux Desktops on YouTube. They are here (http://www.youtube.com/user/jjmacey).

I've done these all using recordMyDesktop.

I'd like to add Text or Slides to the videos that I produce or have saved . Is there a good application out there?

I'm doing this all from native Linux, and not a video camera.

I've been looking to do this forever!

Adler

[WFGeppetto]

I don't currently have time to read this entire thread; I will as soon as I get home this evening.

I am here now, to praise this program. It took a couple of attempts to figure it out, but once I did, it was very easy to use. I still have to work out the sound, but honestly, I don't care if it records sound, and I'm sure that when I read the whole thread, I will find those answers.

One thing I think is weird, but I suspect I will figure out tonight, is the fact that it saves as .ogg. That isn't weird by itsself, but this is the second install of Ubuntu I've done (I crowded the old one, trying out different apps, and not properly maintaining). On the first install, I ran recordmydesktop to show some friends how sweet Ubuntu is. I can't say for sure, but I am almost positive that it saved as an .flv that time, because I had no trouble at all uploading it to my Photobucket account. This time however, I cannot do so, because .ogg is not supported. I'm sure I'll find a way to convert it, but is there a way to have it save as .flv to begin with.

If not, how did I get it to work the first time? I'd link the video, but it was intended for personal friends, and it shows personal information. The second video was intended for these forums, but it's .ogg, and I don't know what to do about it. If the answer is in this thread, I'll find it. But if there is an easy answer, I'd appreciate it.

Again, that's not my purpose right now. I'm sure I'll figure it out. I just wanted to say, I really dig this app. It's even easier than anything like it that I've used in windows, which is my native tongue, so to speak.

[Adler]

WFGeppetto,

I know the problem that you are struggling with here. The output is in the .ogg/Vorbis format, which YouTube also does not accept.

To convert the output to the .Avi format I use this script in Shell:

Firstly, you'll need mencoder installed. Get it through Synaptic.

Then in shell run either of these two commands:

For PAL:
Code:
mencoder -o output_file.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vbitrate=5000:vhq -ffourcc DX50 -oac pcm -srate 48000 -ofps 25 your_movie.mov

For NTSC:
Code:
mencoder -o output_file.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vbitrate=5000:vhq -ffourcc DX50 -oac pcm -srate 48000 -ofps 29.97 your_movie.mov

I assume your Vid is in your Home file. Then where it says "your_movie.mov", change it to /home/whatever/your movie name. Click, and your vid gets converted to an .Avi file. It might take a minute or two. The .Avi should land in your Home file.

Let us know how it works out.

BTW, I found this solution long ago, I'm sure somewhere here in the Ubuntu Forums.

Adler

[WFGeppetto]

Hey, thanks a bunch, Adler!

I don't have time to follow up right now, but I will a bit later tonight, and I'll come back with the results.

I appreciate the response!

[Twitch6000]

thanks for the program but,I get and error saying,Recording finish error 256.
Parsing related or something.I even got the most updated version.This is the only recorder that will start up for me and it won't record =[.Can someone help me fix the issue lol.

[WFGeppetto]

Yay! I've got it all working now.

Btw, for video conversion, ffmpeg has a gtk front end manager (a graphical interface) called winff. Winff makes ffmpeg easy as pie. Conversion is crazy easy, I can't recommend this enough.

here's my video (http://s193.photobucket.com/albums/z150/wfgeppetto/?action=view&current=outogg.flv)

[SnakeHips]

Here's one i made earlier...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gSNulSDONCM

fyi - there's a Ubuntu group on Youtube.
http://uk.youtube.com/groups_layout?name=ubuntu

[SnakeHips]

This is a great app. I love it. Thanks for making it. Sometimes I record multiple sections of the screen simultaneously and it becomes difficult to keep track which taksbar icon corresponds to which section being recorded. It would help if there was some mechanism to distinguish between them. I know this would be hard to implement, if at all possible. One would think that each taskbar icon would be of different color and the recording black box corresponding to that icon would be of the same color.
Regardless, it is an extremely useful app and all I need to figure out is how to record sound using the alsa mixer.

In terminal type alsamixer

press tab key to select "capture"

press right arrow key to highlight "mix" press spacebar to select

hope it helps.

[jerbroo]

When I play any of my test screen captures made with recordmydesktop all I see is a blue screen as the video plays. I'm using kaffiene.

Any suggestions?

...missing codec file?

thanks

[brennydoogles]

When I play any of my test screen captures made with recordmydesktop all I see is a blue screen as the video plays. I'm using kaffiene.

Any suggestions?

...missing codec file?

thanks

I doubt it would be a missing codec since recordmydesktop records to an open source video format. I would try downloading VLC and trying itsudo aptitude install vlc

[jerbroo]

Thanks!
Though that didn't actually fix the problem (vlc is already installed), it did prompt me to run vlc from a terminal. From there it gave malloc errors. The chip in my laptop (Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Inte\
grated Graphics Controller) uses shared memory and appearently there's a bug. After applying the following fix and restarting X (log out and in again) I can play my screen captures! wooohooo!

The fix is to add these line to the Device section of the xorg.conf file:
Option "VideoRam" "65536"
Option "CacheLines" "1980"


....So, my section looks like this.

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Inte\
grated Graphics Controller"
Boardname "i810"
Busid "PCI:0:2:0"
Driver "i810"
Screen 0
Option "VideoRam" "65536"
Option "CacheLines" "1980"
EndSection

The original post is here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-194746.html

[brennydoogles]

Sweet! Throw a vid on Youtube, and show us!

[suoko]

RE: Convert files in tmp?
By: John Varouhakis (iovarProject Admin) - 2007-11-22 08:24
I'm afraid that there is no standard procedure on rescuing sessions
(it is planned for 0.3.7 though)

The easiest way to do it now, is probably the following:

1)rename your files like this: img.out=>img.out.1 ,img.out.1=>img.out.2 and so on.

2)start a new recordMyDesktop recording session,
using identical settings as the crashed session.

3)find it's folder with the temporary files of the new session(while
recording) and paste the files you want to rescue.

4) stop the new session and let it encode.


Normally, what will happen is that the old
recording will be collated on the end of the new one.
The problem of course is that you will have the contents
of the new session at the beginning of the old.


You can minimize this effect by using this script:
http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/files/rescue_rmd.gz

Place it somewhere in your path and then cd to
the rMD-session-12517/ directory . Then simply
run the script.

If you used custom settings (fps, width,height)
in the initial recording you need to modify the
script and mirror these.



Feel free to ask if you have any questions on the
procedure.




John.-


https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1785293&forum_id=590957

UPDATE:
In order to recover the audio I copy audio.pcm together with img.out.1(I don't rename it to audio.pcm.1 otherwise I got no audio at all)
The problem with this procedure is that the audio goes out of sync but can be adjusted (though it's an hard work with kino)

[bprof]

I've tried recordmydesktop, here is what I did:
1-Open the application (GUI)
2-Clicked record
3-When finished stopped recording and clicked save as.
4-Gave a name and location

The result nothing was saved.

I did the same steps but this time after selecting a Window, still I got the same result.

Then I tried to give a name first, then select a window the result was this error:

recordmydesktop has exited with status:256
Description: error while parsing the arguments.

Any help as to what went wrong?

[neurotranslator]

I got problem with gtk record my desktop. The video is no in sync with audio. There is audio delay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzJPFMM4Mq4). I am looking for help. Please if someone has got solution post it. Thanks

[purplepaint]

sorry if this sounds like a stupid question, but I'm still new to all this stuff...

what if I can't find an option called "mix" to check?

[ShadowMKII]

I also cannot find a "mix" option either.

I have three "Captures" and I have set them all to 100%, but I still have no results. That is even when I use the "GNOME ALSA Mixer" application from Synaptic (they accomplish the same thing.)

[DonnyB4e56]

I can't stop recording by pressint CTRL+C it's not working.

[brennydoogles]

I can't stop recording by pressint CTRL+C it's not working.

if you are running the app from terminal make sure the terminal window is selected before you do Ctrl +c. If you are not running in terminal, then ctrl+c won't do anything, and you will need to click stop on the GUI option.

[Duudo]

I've tried recordmydesktop, here is what I did:
1-Open the application (GUI)
2-Clicked record
3-When finished stopped recording and clicked save as.
4-Gave a name and location

The result nothing was saved.

I did the same steps but this time after selecting a Window, still I got the same result.

Then I tried to give a name first, then select a window the result was this error:

recordmydesktop has exited with status:256
Description: error while parsing the arguments.

Any help as to what went wrong?

I have the same problem.. -.-'

[miranto]

hi i am new at linux, i installed recordmydesktop or at least i think i did, hehe and when i hit the record button it will take a second for an error msg to come up saying:
Recording has finished
recordmyDesktop has exited with status: 256
Description:Error while parsing the arguments.

Please help

[loell]

can you execute recordmydesktop on the terminal, see message you will get.

[Adler]

Hi All,

I had recordMyDesktop going very well. My system crashed, now I want to see the guide to recording.

recordmyDesktop is installed, where is the How To? I did it so well before.

Regards,

Adler

[dugh]

I and others had gtk-recordmydesktop working fine in Ubuntu Gutsy, but then it stopped working in Ubuntu Hardy. It hangs after the recording is over, while it is encoding or saving to disk or whatever.

See for example:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5621812
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=756707

Using recordmydesktop from the command seems to work fine, although I haven't learned how to limit it to one window yet.

Is there a fix for this somewhere?

[loell]

I and others had gtk-recordmydesktop working fine in Ubuntu Gutsy, but then it stopped working in Ubuntu Hardy. It hangs after the recording is over, while it is encoding or saving to disk or whatever.

See for example:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5621812
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=756707

Using recordmydesktop from the command seems to work fine, although I haven't learned how to limit it to one window yet.

Is there a fix for this somewhere?

i haven't check with recordmydesktop's project site for a while now, althoughits really strange that you get it working in the command line but it won't if executed with gtk-recordmydesktop.

[Samizdat]

rMD doesn't work well at all in my Hardy 8.04 setup. The audio is fantastic, but the video either plays back in about three seconds, even if it's a three minute recording, or there's no video at all except a black screen (when trying to record music visualizations, for instance).

What's wrong here? Must I buy a DVB card and a VDR? Must I install Ubuntu server edition? Or must I merely install the "correct DVB modules?" If the last, which are the correct modules?

Any help here greatly appreciated.

[mocha]

I downloaded and compiled the latest versions from their homepage and it works fine.

[Valodes]

Thanks Dude this really great program you rock give you :KS:KS:KS:KS:KS

bey

[JohnParker]

I there any way to record full screen? 1440x900?

[warped0ne]

The tutorial at the beginning of this post is very good, but here's a link to a short video of the actual process of installing the Record My Desktop and Mencoder software.

http://home.mchsi.com/~tk1/recordmydesktop.swf

I wanted to include instructions on how to actually use the software as well, but Record My Desktop doesn't work in my virtual installation of Ubuntu, sorry.

[mrpurple]

hi, i'm under ubuntu 8.10 amd 64.
i'm tryng to record a video from my pc. I'd like to capture also the audio of the video that i'm watching , if is possible.
i just installed and getting this:

~$ recordmydesktop
Initial recording window is set to:
X:0 Y:0 Width:1680 Height:1050
Adjusted recording window is set to:
X:0 Y:4 Width:1680 Height:1040
Your window manager appears to be compiz


Detected 3d compositing window manager.
Reverting to full screen capture at every frame.
To disable this check run with --no-wm-check
(though that is not advised, since it will probably produce faulty results).

Initializing...
Buffer size adjusted to 4096 from 4096 frames.
Opened PCM device hw:0,0
Playback frequency 22050Hz is not available...
Using 44100Hz instead.
Recording on device hw:0,0 is set to:
2 channels at 44100Hz
Capturing!
X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
Bad Access on XGrabKey.
Shortcut already assigned.
X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
Bad Access on XGrabKey.
Shortcut already assigned.
X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
Bad Access on XGrabKey.
Shortcut already assigned.
X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
Bad Access on XGrabKey.
Shortcut already assigned.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Overrun occurred.
^C
*********************************************

Cached 18 MB, from 4294967245 MB that were received.
Average cache compression ratio: 0 %

*********************************************
Saved 607 frames in a total of 651 requests
Shutting down.....
STATE:ENCODING
Encoding started!
This may take several minutes.
Pressing Ctrl-C will cancel the procedure (resuming will not be possible, but
any portion of the video, which is already encoded won't be deleted).
Please wait...
[49%] ^C
Encoding finished!
Wait a moment please...

Done.
Written 5655443 bytes
(4536445 of which were video data and 1118998 audio data)

Cleanning up cache...
Done!!!
Goodbye!

i did some try from gtk and video are good but no audio.

[Adler]

mrpurple,

Are you running 8.10 64-bit on that AMD processor?

Regards,

Adler

[mrpurple]

no the processor is intel core duo
but i did again a try from the gtk-recordmydesktop just now and i can record the video, with microphone audio.
Seems that is not possible record the sound coming from the computer (mean file or video showing while capturing)

[wtstommy]

I seem to be having exactly the same problem as Mrpurple, and my desktop runs extremely slow when I run recordmydesktop.

[mrpurple]

for the performance check that under advanced the tab performance has the flag on zero compression.
for audio from pc don't know yet.

[Adler]

Hi All,

I ran across this (http://linux-magazine.com/online/blogs/productivity_sauce_dmitri_s_open_source_blend_of_p roductive_computing/screencasts_on_linux_made_easy) today.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Adler

[Dyonas]

I hope I'm not pulling up a long dead topic but I've been trying to use recordmydesktop for a while and manage to - but without audio. The option to select audio (gtkrecmydesktop) is listed as "DEFAULT" in an editable text box but I want it to record the audio I hear, not the mic source and I don't know how to do this. Can anyone tell me how to go about altering it so I can record audio as I hear it?

I don't intend to do it for this but it's the best way to give an example. If I was on YouTube and set it up I can record the video but audio is only taken from the front mic port (laptop). If no mic is plugged in then the audio is missing. I'm sure it's a simple thing to do but I'm a relatively new Linux user and don't know where to start.

[purplepaint]

I hope I'm not pulling up a long dead topic but I've been trying to use recordmydesktop for a while and manage to - but without audio. The option to select audio (gtkrecmydesktop) is listed as "DEFAULT" in an editable text box but I want it to record the audio I hear, not the mic source and I don't know how to do this. Can anyone tell me how to go about altering it so I can record audio as I hear it?

I don't intend to do it for this but it's the best way to give an example. If I was on YouTube and set it up I can record the video but audio is only taken from the front mic port (laptop). If no mic is plugged in then the audio is missing. I'm sure it's a simple thing to do but I'm a relatively new Linux user and don't know where to start.
From what I've learnt, it seems that the ability to "record what you hear" is a hardware issue. The only method I've found for my laptop (which works extremely well) is to connect your mic jack to your headphone jack via a female-to-female connector.

I can't remember whether or not I had to fiddle around with Alsamixer settings.

[rvkbob]

Many thanks for all the help. I found, with Ubuntu 8.10, that I can indeed record my desktop but not the sound. Does anyone know what to turn on to allow sound capture from the desktop? I've tried recording a bit from a YouTube video and all I get is the video.

BTW, I had to mencoder the .ogg to a .avi to get Movie Player to play it at all.

Any help will be appreciated. I'm a rookie at this movie stuff.;)

[rfkrocktk]

I've also been having my fair share of crap while dealing with recordmydesktop :)
One thing is that the GUI only seems to record roughly 50% of the time, though it's worse if I'm trying to record audio with the video. I don't know what that's all about, but I can deal with using terminal to run recordMyDesktop.
The other thing is audio. I finally think I got recording audio to work thanks to hours of googling and watching tutorials on the subject. I got Skype running just fine and I'm totally stoked on getting that working, but recordMyDesktop is another story. Sometimes from commandline, it'll work, sometimes it will become unresponsive to Ctrl-C. When I run it from commandline with audio, I get the following output:

rfkrocktk@rfkrocktk-ubuntu:~$ recordmydesktop -device hw:default,0
Initial recording window is set to:
X:0 Y:0 Width:1280 Height:800
Adjusted recording window is set to:
X:0 Y:0 Width:1280 Height:800
Your window manager appears to be Metacity

Initializing...
Buffer size adjusted to 4096 from 4096 frames.
Opened PCM device hw:default,0
Playback frequency 22050Hz is not available...
Using 44100Hz instead.
Recording on device hw:default,0 is set to:
1 channels at 44100Hz
Capturing!
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7a38767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_unlock+0x31) [0xb7a388b1]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7e91421]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XNextEvent+0x74) [0xb7e79734]
#4 recordmydesktop [0x8051776]
#5 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7d574fb]
#6 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7b10e5e]
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7a38767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x2e) [0xb7a3881e]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7e91518]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7e91cb2]
#4 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7e91fcf]
#5 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XNextEvent+0x8b) [0xb7e7974b]
#6 recordmydesktop [0x8051776]
#7 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7d574fb]
#8 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7b10e5e]
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Broken pipe: Underrun occurred.
Shutting down.Saved 32 frames in a total of 75 requests
....
Encoding started!
This may take several minutes.
Pressing Ctrl-C will cancel the procedure (resuming will not be possible, but
any portion of the video, which is already encoded won't be deleted).
Please wait...
[98%]
Encoding finished!
Wait a moment please...

Done.
Written 1419070 bytes
(1358345 of which were video data and 60725 audio data)

Cleanning up cache...
Done!!!
Goodbye!


If it actually puts out the file, it is semi-watchable, but no sound is present and it will play back at less than a frame per second, in fact my video player's scrubber bar won't even move. If no audio is included in the file, it usually plays back fine, but sometimes it will be impossible to exit the terminal using Ctrl-C, it just won't do anything. When I use the --no-sound parameter, this is what my output looks like:

rfkrocktk@rfkrocktk-ubuntu:~$ recordmydesktop --no-sound
Initial recording window is set to:
X:0 Y:0 Width:1280 Height:800
Adjusted recording window is set to:
X:0 Y:0 Width:1280 Height:800
Your window manager appears to be Metacity

Initializing...
Capturing!
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7aac767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_unlock+0x31) [0xb7aac8b1]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7f05421]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XNextEvent+0x74) [0xb7eed734]
#4 recordmydesktop [0x8051776]
#5 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7dcb4fb]
#6 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7b84e5e]
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7aac767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x2e) [0xb7aac81e]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7f05518]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XReply+0x140) [0xb7f06200]
#4 recordmydesktop [0x804b159]
#5 recordmydesktop [0x8051083]
#6 recordmydesktop [0x804f21c]
#7 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7dcb4fb]
#8 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7b84e5e]
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7aac767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_unlock+0x31) [0xb7aac8b1]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7f05421]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XNextEvent+0x74) [0xb7eed734]
#4 recordmydesktop [0x8051776]
#5 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7dcb4fb]
#6 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7b84e5e]
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7aac767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x2e) [0xb7aac81e]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7f05518]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XReply+0x140) [0xb7f06200]
#4 recordmydesktop [0x804b159]
#5 recordmydesktop [0x8051083]
#6 recordmydesktop [0x804f21c]
#7 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7dcb4fb]
#8 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7b84e5e]
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7aac767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_unlock+0x31) [0xb7aac8b1]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7f05421]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XNextEvent+0x74) [0xb7eed734]
#4 recordmydesktop [0x8051776]
#5 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7dcb4fb]
#6 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7b84e5e]
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7aac767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x2e) [0xb7aac81e]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7f05518]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XReply+0x140) [0xb7f06200]
#4 /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3(XFixesGetCursorImage+0xb8) [0xb7c47608]
#5 recordmydesktop [0x804e7e6]
#6 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7dcb4fb]
#7 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7b84e5e]
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7aac767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_unlock+0x31) [0xb7aac8b1]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7f05421]
#3 recordmydesktop [0x804b174]
#4 recordmydesktop [0x8051083]
#5 recordmydesktop [0x804f21c]
#6 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7dcb4fb]
#7 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7b84e5e]
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7aac767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x2e) [0xb7aac81e]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7f05518]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7f05cb2]
#4 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7f05fcf]
#5 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XNextEvent+0x8b) [0xb7eed74b]
#6 recordmydesktop [0x8051776]
#7 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7dcb4fb]
#8 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7b84e5e]
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7aac767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_unlock+0x31) [0xb7aac8b1]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7f05421]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XNextEvent+0x74) [0xb7eed734]
#4 recordmydesktop [0x8051776]
#5 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7dcb4fb]
#6 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7b84e5e]
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7aac767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x2e) [0xb7aac81e]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7f05518]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XReply+0x140) [0xb7f06200]
#4 /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3(XFixesGetCursorImage+0xb8) [0xb7c47608]
#5 recordmydesktop [0x804e7e6]
#6 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7dcb4fb]
#7 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7b84e5e]
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7aac767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_unlock+0x31) [0xb7aac8b1]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7f05421]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XNextEvent+0x74) [0xb7eed734]
#4 recordmydesktop [0x8051776]
#5 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7dcb4fb]
#6 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7b84e5e]
Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xb7aac767]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x2e) [0xb7aac81e]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0xb7f05518]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XReply+0x140) [0xb7f06200]
#4 recordmydesktop [0x804b159]
#5 recordmydesktop [0x8051083]
#6 recordmydesktop [0x804f21c]
#7 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7dcb4fb]
#8 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e) [0xb7b84e5e]
Saved 197 frames in a total of 240 requests
Shutting down......
Encoding started!
This may take several minutes.
Pressing Ctrl-C will cancel the procedure (resuming will not be possible, but
any portion of the video, which is already encoded won't be deleted).
Please wait...
[100%]
Encoding finished!
Wait a moment please...

Done.
Written 1800612 bytes
(1800612 of which were video data and 0 audio data)

Cleanning up cache...
Done!!!
Goodbye!


Can anyone help me debug this?

[halovivek]

i will try this one in home :)

[mwwoj]

@BLTicklemonster:
If it is a relatively light game, on a low resoulution and on a strong pc, then maybe...

I got this on my p4 3.2 on 640x480@15 fps:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-807141800269084169&hl=en
running the program like this:
recordmydesktop --quick-subsampling --zero-compression --full-shots --with-shared -windowid 0x4000076 -o warzone2100-1.ogg -v_quality 24 -s_quality 4

(to get a windowid you need to run xwininfo first)

As you see a-v sync is bad(sound stays 2-3 seconds ahead)
It also needed about 1gb of free space for the 5 minute recording.


Other than that, to anyone using this program, or istanbul,
you can upload ogg/theora directly on google video.
I don't know why they don't mention it on the accepted formats, but it works fine.

How you managed to record sound?

I do not know why I cannot record sound at all..

Do I need sth extra?

I tried via microphone/usb microphone/jack mocrophone
... all works with othe programs (skype etc.)

[mdshaver]

I think my difficulty with recording sound stems from a bug in the gnome volume control. My interest is simply to record audio from an online presentation along with the video so I do not have any use for recording from the mic. In the recordmyDesktop online documentation, it mentions that a wave/mix/capture option must be selected in the Gnome Volume Control. I did select Capture but it seems that when I toggle it on and close it, the program does not remember it. Everytime I open the Gnome Volume Control, the capture option is de-selected. Recording video seems to work fine but I'd like to have audio too.

[Arup]

Select ALSA in sound for recording.

[mdshaver]

I'm sorry buy could you please be more specific. I don't think selecting ALSA is the issue but if you could provide more detail I would appreciate it.

[loell]

i've had successes before in recording all sound output by using gnome-alsamixer

[Arup]

i've had successes before in recording all sound output by using gnome-alsamixer

Same here, I have had no issues at all either using built in Realtek or my old Yamaha Waveforce DS-XG.

[Adler]

Arup,

I'm now running Ubuntu 9.04. I just switched back after running openSuSE11.1

In the past I'd done a lot of compiz-Fusion 3D YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/jjmacey) videos with Linux Mint running recordMyDesktop.

What apps have you downloaded?

Best Regards,

JJMacey

[dipaish]

To install record my desktop in Ubuntu Jaunty

deep@deep-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop

After installing you can record and save the recorded video which is in ogv format which can be a headache. Forget going to terminal and typing codes. Instead read the tutorial at this site (http://info123.org/tutorials/54-how-to-convert-ogv-file-format-to-avi-or-any-other-format-)

Click here to Watch the video to change the file from ogv to other formats: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zdlanIuz7Y)

[Arup]

Arup,

I'm now running Ubuntu 9.04. I just switched back after running openSuSE11.1

In the past I'd done a lot of compiz-Fusion 3D YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/jjmacey) videos with Linux Mint running recordMyDesktop.

What apps have you downloaded?

Best Regards,

JJMacey


Adler,

I have downloaded the usual Audacity, Avidemux, WinFF as well as Skype, Google Earth etc. All from the repos so far, haven't used getdeb yet. I have nvidia as well as dual GPU ATI 4850 but I don't use Compiz etc. Just have metacity on.

[Adler]

Hi All,

I remember mencoder as part of the packages that I'd downloaded in the past, and used terminal to convert the ogg / vorbis output to .avi with

Here's the how-to. Firstly you'll need mencoder installed. Get it through Synaptic.

Then in shell run either of these two commands:

For PAL:
Code:
mencoder -o output_file.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vbitrate=5000:vhq -ffourcc DX50 -oac pcm -srate 48000 -ofps 25 /home/jjmacey/OpenSuse11.0LoveWillGetYouInTheEnd.ogv

For NTSC:
Code:
mencoder -o output_file.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vbitrate=5000:vhq -ffourcc DX50 -oac pcm -srate 48000 -ofps 29.97 your_movie.mov

I assume your Vid is in your Home file. Then where it says "your_movie.mov", change it to /home/whatever/your movie name. Click, and your vid gets converted to an .avi file. It might take a minute or two. The .avi should land in your Home file.

Best Regards,

JJMacey

[Mauri24]

I use the recordmydesktop_0.3.0-1_i386.deb (http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=19714&d=1164066359) version... This version have a GUI or not? because i can't install the latest version ;) (some error)

EDIT: the update manager have updated the recordmydesktop application, now I dunno wich version it is, btw I can't find it in the application bar (the gui version I mean, with the terminal it works well ;))


LoooooL never mind, just did this for the GUI ;)

sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop

[ActiveFrost]

Does anybody know how to set this up so I could use auto-zoom feature ( like on Camtasia, etc. - otherwise, it's impossible to read the text and other things on YouTube ) ?

[tad1073]

how can I get recordMyDesktop to recognize my sound card

[Winterheart]

I have an nVidia 2200+ with 128 MB video RAM and recordmydesktop doesn't work well. Is the cause lost because my video card or I can still change some options to make it work?

[OpenGuard]

Is there a way to enable some kind of auto-zoom like in Camtasia ( perfect feature for YouTube-size videos ) ?

[Arup]

Arup,

I'm now running Ubuntu 9.04. I just switched back after running openSuSE11.1

In the past I'd done a lot of compiz-Fusion 3D YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/jjmacey) videos with Linux Mint running recordMyDesktop.

What apps have you downloaded?

Best Regards,

JJMacey


Hi JJMacey,

I have downloaded quite a few apps, are you looking for something specific?

regards
Arup

[nicklausmichael]

Heres mine! lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHVI5--_sxE

[ctsdownloads]

Good luck if you are using ATI proprietary drivers! :mad:

cat ~/gtk-recordMyDesktop-crash.log
#This is the command given at initialization:
recordmydesktop -o /home/matt/Desktop/save -fps 15 -channels 2 -freq 22050 -device pulse -v_quality 63 -s_quality 10 -workdir /tmp --overwrite


#recordMyDesktop stderror output:
Initial recording window is set to:
X:0 Y:0 Width:1280 Height:1024
Adjusted recording window is set to:
X:0 Y:0 Width:1280 Height:1024
Your window manager appears to be compiz


Detected 3d compositing window manager.
Reverting to full screen capture at every frame.
To disable this check run with --no-wm-check
(though that is not advised, since it will probably produce faulty results).

Initializing...
Buffer size adjusted to 4096 from 4096 frames.
Opened PCM device pulse
Recording on device pulse is set to:
2 channels at 22050Hz
X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
Bad Access on XGrabKey.
Shortcut already assigned.
X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
Bad Access on XGrabKey.
Shortcut already assigned.
X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
Bad Access on XGrabKey.
Shortcut already assigned.
X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
Bad Access on XGrabKey.
Shortcut already assigned.
Capturing!

It's even worse with Copiz-Fusion disabled...running the cat log actually starts the recordmydesktop backend! WTF? Thanks ATI!