From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OVlEy-0002qO-TI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:57:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 836EDE081E; Mon, 5 Jul 2010 12:57:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.104]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C165AE081E for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2010 12:57:09 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8GALdzMUx8qUfJ/2dsb2JhbACTPow2cb1vhSUEg3aGfA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,539,1272816000"; d="scan'208";a="573856556" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.71.201]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 05 Jul 2010 20:57:05 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615201457099 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2010 20:57:05 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TVJ7dXZp2QUo for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2010 20:57:02 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.44.2] (rattus [192.168.44.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F9ED1B38B4F for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2010 20:57:02 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video? From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <201007042017.56688.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201007050657.24603.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20100705084311.66991493@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Organization: Home in Perth! Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:57:01 +0800 Message-ID: <1278334621.8836.8.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 04ebc4c2-7b39-4dbe-a272-0b6e66650172 X-Archives-Hash: e84e353774d72b3650f8e794c44046f5 On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 13:43 +0100, Mick wrote: > On 5 July 2010 08:43, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 06:57:12 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > >> PS. Google is only as good as your ability to find the terms by which > >> you should be searching. > > > > Your question was "How to capture a screen video"m Googling for "linux > > How to capture a screen video" gives several answers :) > > Yes, I googled trying not to be clever and asked: > > "How to record my desktop using Linux" > > but this brought up the recordmydesktop application. I thought there > must be more ways, knowing of xvidcap but not remembering ffmpeg. > > At which point I thought, better ask the 'oracle' of all knowledge and > posted in this M/L. > > A good keyword for a google search would have been "capture", but > after a long day of bashing the keyboard I was pretty brain dead to > come up with it! O_O > > Ditto for "screencast". All I could think at the time was I want to > make a video of screenshots, or I want to record desktop events, none > of which gave me a satisfactory answer. Ive used recordmydesktop and it does a good job - however the windows camtasia app has a better end product due to propriety codecs. I tried many combinations on a recorded file to compress a recordmydesktop file but never got near camtasias size/quality. It was acceptable though for download. There were also the usual problems of syncing audio, some formats playing ok on some platforms and not on others etc that also make getting a winning combination difficult. Needs some kind of linux expert on the subject to produce a usable guide to the many settings to get the best out of it. BillK