Record your desktop with recordmydesktop ;)

[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 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!

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!

[Puzzled Guy]

How come, of all the videos I saw, mine seems to have a relatively better resolution?

Anyway, if your videos have a bad resolution when uploaded to YouTube, try this procedure:

Type in the terminal:

recordmydesktop  nameofoutput

If you want to have a delay of 5 seconds before it starts recording, type:

recordmydesktop -delay 5  -o nameofoutput

To stop the recording, press ctr + c in the terminal.
Wait for the processing to complete.
Can't find the video? Look in your home directory
EX: if you change the directory to /home/user/Videos before you record, your video gets saved in the "Videos" directory, got it?

.ogv looks quite bad on YouTube so, convert it to .avi
Open the Terminal again in the directory where you saved the video in and enter the command:

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

change input.ogv to the name of the file to convert and output.avi to the name of the converted file. NOTE: You have to install mencoder first if it isn't already (it is very good at preserving the video quality)

The resolution will be the same after the conversion
See my video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ySTp0_NLKo
And compare the resolution with something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaJi580BAb8

No offense pedalcat, just needed a video to demonstrate with...

Oh, by the way, tell me if it is any better. Send me a private message

[suniyo]

I have a strange problem, that video and audio is not synced with each other even if i keep my framerate and freuency high. Do anyone here knows why it is not syncing?? Pls reply as I have followed the thread and have read everything but have this one single problem.
Thanks in advance.

[Zetheroo]

As suniyo said the video and audio are out of sync. I have tried all kinds of settings and have run it from the terminal as well with the same annoying results.

Istanbul on the other hand does not have issues with audio and video sync ... but it lacks some key features.

Xvidcap does not record audio for me.

I have also done screencasting with ffmpegg but that leaves me with massive files and again ffmpeg lacks many key features of creating a screencast.

Screencasting in Linux seems pretty hopeless ...

We desperately need a way to get this working in Linux.

[wayfarer_boy]

I found that I had audio sync problems (in both compiz and metacity) when I used -delay in recordmydesktop. I removed the -delay option, and audio synced fine when tested in both composite managers. I now use the sleep command instead:

sleep 5; recordmydesktop options...

[nanotube]

I found that I had audio sync problems (in both compiz and metacity) when I used -delay in recordmydesktop. I removed the -delay option, and audio synced fine when tested in both composite managers. I now use the sleep command instead:

sleep 5; recordmydesktop options...

i suggest you file that bug with the recordmydesktop project. seems like it's a simple oversight-type bug that should be easily fixable.

[Zetheroo]

Ok, I have fixed it up and its working perfectly now!

HERE is what I did!