[plug] screen capture/recording software

[William Kenworthy]

I'll also recommend recordmydesktop ... along with Jason's comments on
file quality/size.  I still have not found a transcoding recipe that can
match camtasias results.

BillK

On 13/03/13 13:33, Jason Nicholls wrote:
> 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
> <mailto:arjen at lentz.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Jason, Paul
>
>     > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Paul Del < p at delfante.it
>     <mailto: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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