How to Create Screencast with recordMyDesktop in ubuntu 9.04
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There is a desktop session recorder for Linux called recordMyDesktop that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at it’s primary task.recordMyDesktop offers also the ability to record audio through ALSA, OSS or the JACK audio server.
To install recordMyDesktop
Go to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager,type recordmydesktop in Quicksearch field.
Right click gtk-recordmydesktop,select mark for installation.Mark to be install in next window.
Then click Apply button to start install recordmydesktop.
Using recordMyDesktop
After installation,click to Applications->Sound&Video->gtk-recordMyDeskop to openup.
Click on Save As to set where to save screencast and click Advanced for more settings.
Click Record to start record,and this window will disappear.You can see this button on top right:
It’s used to control the recording,you can right-click it to pause and left-click to stop the recording.
When stop,a window pops up prompt waiting for encode the recording.You can double click to view the screencast after this prompt.
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Reader Comments
gtk-recordMyDesktop (records video + audio) and gnome-sound-recorder (records audio) can record both the system and the microphone sound. To choose the sound to be recorded open gnome-volume-control (from ALT+F2 for example), click on Hardware, then on Profile and there choose the corresponding option, depending on what will be recorded ..:
+ sound of the system: a) Analog Stereo Output; or b) Digital Stereo Duplex (IEC958)
+ sound from the microphone: a) Analog Stereo Duplex; or b) Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output + Analog Stereo Input
In gnome-volume-control, it may be necessary to choose “Off”, close it, open it again, choose the desired option and close it again.
Some of the other options may work sometimes, but they may record sometimes the system sound and sometimes the mic sound. And other options may record audio but could not permit to listen to the recorded sound. So it’s better not to use those options.
NB: system sound is the sound of what one can hear from the speaker. It can be a .ogg or .mp3, … song played by Totem, or a Flash music video of a web site, …
But gtk-recordMyDesktop has 2 problems:
a) When you click on stop it takes a lot of time to encode the video (in xvidcap you have it in the moment you stop the recording).
b) It uses a lot of space in a folder called more or less /tmp/rMD-session-xxxx. Sometimes is deleted after the encoding but sometimes not (keeps on growing) and you have to delete it before your Linux root partition (/) gets full.
To be able to record the sound with xvidcap (from the mic or of the system) you just need to follow a few steps to install it properly:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1714139
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