<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>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Arjen Lentz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arjen@lentz.com.au" target="_blank">arjen@lentz.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Jason, Paul<br>
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> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Paul Del < <a href="mailto:p@delfante.it">p@delfante.it</a> > wrote:<br>
</div><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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</div>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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</div>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 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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