[SOLVED] What is your favourite Screen Recorder for Ubuntu?

[Rytron]

Hi,
What is your favourite Screen Recorder for Ubuntu?

I your choice is not on the above list, please then choose other and post a comment on what your choice is. Thank you.

I hope one day Ubuntu gets CamStudio.

[erginemr]

Hi,

gtk-recordmydesktop is the one that worked for me. In my antique system (Athlon 750 MHz, 512 MB RAM) gtk-recordmydesktop fulfills its premise. (I have tried Istanbul (maybe because it was my home city ;)) back in Gutsy, but had several problems in recording the video, and therefore had to leave using it.

[blithen]

GTK-RMD is the only one that actually WORKS for me. Though I wish it could save in a format that actually works with youtube..

[Rytron]

Hi,

gtk-recordmydesktop is the one that worked for me. In my antique system (Athlon 750 MHz, 512 MB RAM) gtk-recordmydesktop fulfills its premise. (I have tried Istanbul (maybe because it was my home city ;)) back in Gutsy, but had several problems in recording the video, and therefore had to leave using it.

Although I did vote for XVidCap Screen Capture, I have since also found tk-recordMyDesktop to be the best one. Even though it records in ogg - there must be numerous ways to convert this to avi, mp4, etc. Not sure how to convert ogg to other video formats in Ubuntu yet though.

[bigbrovar]

Not sure how to convert ogg to other video formats in Ubuntu yet though. u can use PSPVC although u have to compile it from source .. but it just works ..

[erginemr]

I could just convert the ogg screencast I've recorded to avi via ffmpeg. To install:

sudo aptitude install ffmpeg
and to carry out the conversion:

ffmpeg -i <input_file> <output_file>
and then could edit the resulting file with avidemux:
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

To install:

sudo aptitude install avidemux

You may also consider using WinFF, which will act as a frontend to ffmpeg:
http://www.winff.org/

There is also mencoder, which will convert video files into different formats.

[Rytron]

GTK-RMD is the only one that actually WORKS for me. Though I wish it could save in a format that actually works with youtube..

OGG can be uploaded to YouTube.
Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdQFQU8SYik

[bufsabre666]

istanbul is the one i use, it works for me, but honestly ive never even tried to others, is there any features that gtk record my desktop has that might be worth while to change to?

[erginemr]

istanbul is the one i use, it works for me, but honestly ive never even tried to others, is there any features that gtk record my desktop has that might be worth while to change to?

I guess they are more or less equivalent. As long as the one you are using works for you, I'd say, stick to it.

The following is a demo/screencast of gtk-recordmydesktop:
http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=1820000&fromSeriesID=182
Or you may try it for yourself:

sudo aptitude install gtk-recordmydesktop

[bufsabre666]

I guess they are more or less equivalent. As long as the one you are using works for you, I'd say, stick to it.

The following is a demo/screencast of gtk-recordmydesktop:
http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=1820000&fromSeriesID=182
Or you may try it for yourself:

sudo aptitude install gtk-recordmydesktop

yeah i figured as much, they both seemed the same when i reviewed them so i just thought i asked incase there was a worth while feature that i didnt know cause there seems to be quite a few gtk-record my desktop users

[Rytron]

I guess they are more or less equivalent. As long as the one you are using works for you, I'd say, stick to it.

The following is a demo/screencast of gtk-recordmydesktop:
http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=1820000&fromSeriesID=182
Or you may try it for yourself:

sudo aptitude install gtk-recordmydesktop

Thanks erginemr for that link.
Here are the commands from that video:

whole screen:

recordmydesktop

region:

recordmydesktop -x 1 -y 1 -width 800 -height 600

window:

recordmydesktop -windowid $( xwininfo -frame | awk '/Window id:/ {print $4}' )

note that if you want to record with no sound add
--no-sound to end of a command line.

[erginemr]

You are welcome Rytron, or should I say C64 guy ;) I am glad that it works for you.