Monday, March 30, 2009

Record your desktop with recordmydesktop :))

recordMyDesktop is a program that captures audio and video data from a Linux desktop session, producing an Ogg-encapsulated Theora-Vorbis file.

A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when you're teaching someone how to do something on a computer, and recordMyDesktop is a great little Linux application for creating screencasts. You can find many Ubuntu/Linux related screencasts in YouTube showing all kinds of captures, including Beryl/Compiz in action.

As such, the program is separated in two parts; a simple command line tool that performs the basic tasks of capturing and encoding and an interface that exposes the program functionality in a usable way. The commandline tool (which essentially is recordMyDesktop), is written in C, while the frontend (gtk-recordMyDesktop), is written in python and pyGtk.

To install
recordMyDesktop in Ubuntu type the following in the terminal.
sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop
Useful links on recordmydesktop

Official Website


User Guide

recordmydesktop Interface

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