Desktop Video Recorder

[superhac007]

Does linux have a desktop video recorder? What I mean is there a utility that will allow you to record a video of your desktop. I am looking for a way to do visual demonstrations of applications with voice annotated audio.


Thanks!

[bored2k]

xvidcap is a tool that captures movement on a selected area of an X11
screen to files. These files may be a number of individual image files
(one for each frame captured) or video files encoded on-the-fly through
FFMPEG’s libavcodec. You select between the two alternatives by speci‐
fying a corresponding output filename, ref. "--file" in the OPTIONS
paragraph. On-the-fly encoding will also allow you to record audio
along with the video. Recording to individual frames may be more conve‐
nient if you wish to preprocess the images before encoding, or if you
need other video codecs xvidcap does not support. Individual images can
later be encoded with tools like ffmpeg, mencoder, or transcode.

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The utility comes with two alternative GUIs: An Xt-based front-end
(xvidcap) and a GTK2-based one (gvidcap). gvidcap is maintained some‐
what better, esp. in terms of user-friendliness. However, xvidcap
should always provide the same basic functionality. Keep in mind that
GUI layouts and behaviours will differ.


After recording the video, what you would want is robust application to manipulate Flash application and audio. Last time I did that I worked with Swish, but that is not Linux based.


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[Electron100]

recordmydesktop or gtk-reordmydesktop worked very well for me.

Istanbul I could not get to work properly

xvidcap always seemed to fail its target framerate and capture something ridiculously awful like 2fps (no matter what format and codec I tried).

The fact that I'm using compiz may have affected xvidcap and Istanbul. recordmydesktop detected that I was using compiz and may have done something special to compensate, I don't know

[mips]

Does linux have a desktop video recorder? What I mean is there a utility that will allow you to record a video of your desktop. I am looking for a way to do visual demonstrations of applications with voice annotated audio.


Thanks!

What DE are you using?

[%hMa@?b<C]

gtk-RecordMyDesktop is pretty nice.