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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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.<br>
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BillK<br>
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On 13/03/13 13:33, Jason Nicholls wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Arjen
Lentz <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Hi Jason, Paul<br>
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> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Paul Del < <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:p@delfante.it">p@delfante.it</a>
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<div class="im">> Can any body recommend any
screen/capture recording software for Linux<br>
> So a newbie can make a training video of say using a
web browser.<br>
> Something gui and fairly easy for a non-techie to use<br>
> I'm not so worried about the format, more that we can
teach a basic<br>
> user to drive it.<br>
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Jason Nicholls replied:<br>
<div class="im">> i use gtk-recordmydesktop on ubuntu,
works pretty well and allows for<br>
> full-screen or selected area recording. Unfortunately
only records to<br>
> ogg format so I generally re-encode to mp4 but
otherwise it's good.<br>
> Handles audio too.<br>
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I was going to suggest recordmydesktop and its GTK frontend
also.<br>
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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 <a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg</a>
for some more background and links).<br>
I reckon that's a good thing, rather than a limitation.<br>
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You can always convert to other formats as needed, and there
are good (graphical) tools for that as well.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Arjen.<br>
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