[plug] screen capture/recording software

[Jason Nicholls]

My "unfortunately" comment was with respect to quality and filesize of ogg
vs mp4 rather than a statement on anything else. It'd be great if there was
an open equivalent but the closest, Google's VP8/WebM, is patent encumbered
and there are technical issues with it too.


On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Arjen Lentz <arjen at lentz.com.au> wrote:

> Hi Jason, Paul
>
> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Paul Del < p at delfante.it > wrote:
> > Can any body recommend any screen/capture recording software for Linux
> > So a newbie can make a training video of say using a web browser.
> > Something gui and fairly easy for a non-techie to use
> > I'm not so worried about the format, more that we can teach a basic
> > user to drive it.
>
> Jason Nicholls replied:
> > i use gtk-recordmydesktop on ubuntu, works pretty well and allows for
> > full-screen or selected area recording. Unfortunately only records to
> > ogg format so I generally re-encode to mp4 but otherwise it's good.
> > Handles audio too.
>
> I was going to suggest recordmydesktop and its GTK frontend also.
>
> The reason it uses Ogg Theora (Video) and Ogg Vorbis (Audio) formats for
> its storage is that they are open formats, unencumbered by patents, nasty
> licences or other blah (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg for some
> more background and links).
> I reckon that's a good thing, rather than a limitation.
>
> You can always convert to other formats as needed, and there are good
> (graphical) tools for that as well.
>
>
> Regards,
> Arjen.
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