Record your desktop with recordmydesktop ;)

[loell]

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

note: you can now install it from the repository through ADD/REMOVE

installation command: sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop

you can find it in Applications menu --> sound and video --> gtk-recordmydesktop


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

mencoder -idx input.ogg -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o output.avi

*note install mencoder if its not installed by doing

sudo aptitude install mencoder

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

[loell]

one roughly made video demo using this tool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6OlnyEKlXY

i encourage anybody using this tool to also post your samples

[sibrand]

Doesn't work with Beryl... does anyone know a recorder that does ?

[loell]

Originally Posted by sibrand Doesn't work with Beryl... does anyone know a recorder that does ?

i think there is a beryl specific plugin that can video capture beryl animations.

[loell]

just an update release, it can now record beryl/compiz
refer to the first post

[giuliastro]

Originally Posted by loell just an update release, it can now record beryl/compiz refer to the first post

Nice job! It works here with Beryl + NVidia. Actually my video are not that smooth but I guess I'd need a quad core to have smooth Beryl videos..

[xfile087]

Maybe it's just me (i'm new to Linux) but when I record my desktop at full resolution (1280x1024) the recorded video won't open in anything. If I record at 640x480 it will play but the colour seems washed out?

Beryl enabled or disabled - same results...


I found out it's a bug with my graphics card driver!

[loell]

Originally Posted by giuliastro Nice job! It works here with Beryl + NVidia. Actually my video are not that smooth but I guess I'd need a quad core to have smooth Beryl videos..

perhaps try

recordmydesktop --quick-subsampling --zero-compression

for maximum performance

[aidanr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF7FgWcIxg8

works pretty well, although using it without those two switches you posted resulted in a crash when pressing ctrl+c

[loell]

Originally Posted by aidanr http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF7FgWcIxg8 works pretty well, although using it without those two switches you posted resulted in a crash when pressing ctrl+c

really? ok we will let the developer know about this,

cool video, can you show more, if you have spare time