Record your desktop with recordmydesktop ;)

[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

[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 it

sudo 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....orum_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. I am looking for help. Please if someone has got solution post it. Thanks