Friday, June 3, 2011

RecordMyDesktop

Intro:

recordMyDesktop is an open source free software used to record desktop session on GNU/Linux. It is a very handy application to have on Linux and one can find lot of videos on net which make use of recordMyDesktop.  The project was started by John Varouhakis in 2006 and he continued to be the maintainer of the project for a long time. The project has not seen an active traffic for last year or two. The last release was  0.3.8.1. The project is hosted on sourceforge. Here is the link to download the source code.
 
Like many other linux softwares out there, recordMyDesktop also comes in two flavors: the typical of linux commandline and two graphical frontends, gtk-recordMyDesktop and qt-recordMyDesktop. Most of the Linux destro's have recordMyDesktop pre-installed in them. To install it on ubuntu, use
> sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop 
gtk version of recordMyDesktop
One last important nugget is recordMyDesktop supports only .ogv theora for video encoding, and .ogv vorbis for audio. If you want to convert your screencasts to other formats there are many good Linux tools for this and also you can find very helpful information here.

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