RecordMyDesktop
is a command-line tool which allows to record your entire Linux desktop
and save it as a Theora Ogg video. It has GTK and Qt frontends too, and
in Ubuntu gtk-recordmydesktop
is available in the repositories. To install recordmydesktop in Ubuntu,
just type in the GNOME Terminal:
sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop
And
if you want the GTK frontend, use:
sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop
The
simplest way to record your desktop is to run the command recordmydesktop without any parameters
inside a terminal, then do whatever you wanted to do, and when you feel
the screencast is over, type Ctrl+C in the terminal where you started
recordmydesktop to stop it. It will start the procedure of encoding the
video to Ogg Theora, which can take a while. The default output file
will be out.ogv, located in the
same directory from where you started recordmydesktop:
You
can also choose the name of the output file:
recordmydesktop -o my_screencast.ogv
Or
make it encode the video on-the-fly, so you won't have to wait after
hitting Ctrl+C:
Some
other useful switches for recordmydesktop are:
-v-quality - video quality, from 0 to
63, default is maximum -s-quality
- sound quality, from -1 to 10, default is 6 -v-bitrate - video bitrate, from 45000
to 200000, default is 45000 -device
- sound device -channels -
number of audio channels
gtk-recordmydesktop
- GTK frontend
However
there was a problem recording visual effects in Kubuntu, the resulted
screencast having many artefacts.
