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- Acglaphotis, on 06/22/2008, -1/+22Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencast
- bsonline, on 06/22/2008, -5/+21Wow, you get buried for asking a question these days? And, some would even bury Acglaphotis for answering. Geesh.
Bury my nuts in your faces, bitches. :-8 - JoaoPe, on 06/22/2008, -0/+15No, this is comments zone from an article. In this case discussing "5 Ways to Screencast Your Linux Desktop".
Hope it helps. Bye! - Chicken, on 06/22/2008, -11/+24Is screencast even the proper term?
- kelvie, on 06/22/2008, -0/+8Actually, if you run the new KDE 4, the easiest way to record your desktop is to go into System Settings -> Desktop Effects and turn on the Video Record plugin. It comes with KDE now.
By default, the key binding is Meta (windows key) + Ctrl + V, and it doesn't lag my system at all (my system isn't fantastic, I have a crappy nVidia card with a C2D E6750, 2 gigs of ram) recording 1920x1200. The video recorded is very smooth, even with desktop effects going. - ileftfark, on 06/22/2008, -3/+10If you're running KDE, the qt-RecordMyDesktop (from qt-apps.org) is probably your best bet. It's (obviously) the GUI frontend for the package recordmydesktop, but for some reason, runs much better on Hardy than the previous KRecordMyDesktop frontend.
I look forward to further development in this area, though, as many of these apps are kinda buggy and not nearly up to par with the established Windows and Mac apps. But that will come with time.
As a side note, I just tested Istanbul, and it gave some wacky output with shrinking and expanding window views and skipped an entire minute of recording. YMMV. - dood, on 06/22/2008, -2/+7Text tutorials, with screenshots, are far better, anyway. They can be skimmed, and easily referred to again and again.
- maninalift, on 06/22/2008, -0/+5So long as you have the HD you don't need to encode on the fly.
- weizbox, on 06/22/2008, -1/+6Fine with me man, text is must easier to search through than a video is anyways :) It can be a pain to skip around with vids due to buffering, etc.. but with text it's all there at once :)
Videos def can be nice addition, but I think text is essential.
Now you got me wanting to figure out a good/easy way to get video+audio capped... ;) - dhughes, on 06/22/2008, -1/+6 I was looking for something just like this not too long ago but didn't come up with much, I searched Google for screencast, screenshot, automatic etc.
Excellent thank you for posting this pavelmah! - inactive, on 06/22/2008, -1/+6Best screencast app is command-line version of record my desktop.
- haruuii, on 06/22/2008, -7/+11I see a graveyard in the near future~
- kevmister, on 06/22/2008, -0/+4Finally, I've never got any of those to work and I didn't know about recordmydesktop, it works perfectly, thanks! : )
- mysql101, on 06/22/2008, -2/+6The question is not how to screencast on linux, but to also do a live broadcast. Anyone know how I can do BOTH without commercial software?
- inactive, on 06/22/2008, -1/+5dont forget yukon
http://dbservice.com/projects/yukon/ - jay019, on 06/23/2008, -0/+4Funny, i installed ubuntu on my laptop and everything worked out of the box. Still has nothing to do with the article, but meh, seems the way things are done around here.
- hseldon, on 06/22/2008, -0/+4I'll second "recordMyDesktop". It's in the Ubuntu 8.04 package manager, so it is simple to install. It saves as an .OGG video that you'll probably have to convert. I used Mencoder to convert - worked great.
- jay019, on 06/23/2008, -0/+4Err, what the???
- inactive, on 06/22/2008, -1/+4I really find it great thanks for those screens.
- dbr_onix, on 06/23/2008, -0/+3Why was MarianaPeyton comment down-voted? iShowU on OS X and Camtasia on Windows are probably the best options.
ScreenFlow is another decent OS X screen-capture application, and has a fairly interesting editor (unlike iShowU which really just does capture to various file formats, and lets you edit it in Quicktime Pro/iMovie/FCP/etc) - ileftfark, on 06/23/2008, -0/+3Did you even read my comment?
- flawedprefect, on 06/23/2008, -0/+3Yeah I've been using recordmydesktop for about 8 months now for my process diary vidcasts. It's pretty good! It records in theora, which means I have to use ffmpeg to convert to mp4 (for iTunes). But... did someone say you can use ffmpeg to record the desktop too!? Looking into that. Might save me a step or two...
- aliguana, on 06/22/2008, -0/+2same with any OS, and not just for screencasting, VNC too. The older the machine, the more laggy they run.
- thevoiceless, on 06/23/2008, -0/+2Do you REALLY need to CAPITALIZE every operating SYSTEM'S name?
- damentz, on 06/22/2008, -1/+3Screencasting in Linux is really simple but the only hitch is your CPU. It's really difficult to get above 15fps unless you have more than one core to share the load.
- inactive, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2I use transcoder.
- hseldon, on 06/22/2008, -0/+2I'm not positive, but I think you can use Red5 to do a live broadcast.
http://osflash.org/red5 - MarianaPeyton, on 06/22/2008, -17/+19This is a good article for anyone who wants to make a tutorial in Linux. For Mac, use iShowU. For Windows, use Camtasia.
- thevoiceless, on 06/23/2008, -0/+2Cool, how?
- BoneStamp, on 06/23/2008, -0/+2Even live screen casting is free for up to three people. Kinda like VNC except it runs in the flash player so one person could be MAC, another XP and another LINUX.
http://www.adobe.com/acom/connectnow/ - kovert, on 06/24/2008, -0/+2Fedora Core 9 has 2 of the 5 applications. It is missing Vnc2swf, Wink and Xvidcap. The Livna repository provides Xvidcap.
- juliend2, on 06/23/2008, -1/+3dugg for linux
- manray7, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1an easy way is also to try the online screencast service on www.screentoaster.com and ask for a beta test
- SnowCrashv5, on 06/25/2008, -0/+1Just to cliarify, it was meant to be text and video, not purely video. Just some audio/visual aids to accompany a text to reference back to.
- dbr_onix, on 06/23/2008, -0/+1Depends - for things like Maya, I find video tutorials far better than text, since it demonstrates how to use the (pretty complex) interface, without having to explicitly explain every little action.
For things like programming, video tutorials can be good (The "Peep Code" videos are good examples of extremely well put-together video tutorials), but they still need text along with them, because you can't copy-and-paste from videos.. - inactive, on 06/23/2008, -0/+1Record my desktop works well once you mesh it to your system. After a few tweaks and experimenting with resolution and bitrate you can set up some nice bash scripts and get this thing running sweet as honey. It encodes really fast and probably faster than anything I have seen on a win box.
- srixmk, on 06/23/2008, -0/+1The UI is not very friendly on this, so you need to use the command line, like so:
vlc screen:// :screen-fps=15 :screen-caching=100 :screen-fragment-size=64 --sout "#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=32,scale=0.5,acodec=mp3,ab=32,channels=1}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=avi,dst="screenrec.avi"},dst=std{access=http,mux=asf,dst=:12340}}"
This will record the desktop session to a file (screenrec.avi), as well as broadcast on HTTP on port 12340. I've still to figure out how to include audio, but I believe the new version in the works makes that easier. - pbhj, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1... and if you want to play the kwin_video1.cps captury file made by KDE4's video record, try this: http://alicious.com/2008/kde4-built-in-screencast- ...
- pbhj, on 08/20/2008, -0/+1Unless I'm mistaken that is Mac OS X running Linux Mint (Elyssa) under VMWare fusion.
- BoneStamp, on 06/22/2008, -2/+2How did they miss Adobe Connect? It's free for this purpose.
- evolutionium, on 06/22/2008, -4/+2Wicked, now I can show the world how gay is my MacOS-looking desktop is!!!!
/Stereotype Linux Junkie - srixmk, on 06/22/2008, -3/+1Not sure if VLC is covered (linuxhaxor seems to be down right now), but I've used VLC for screencast/recording and live broadcast of the desktop.
- maninalift, on 06/22/2008, -4/+2Do you mean KRecordMyDesktop?
- sparksalot, on 06/22/2008, -9/+3Gnome > KDE
- ileftfark, on 06/22/2008, -11/+5BURY BRIGADE IS HERE!
- inactive, on 06/22/2008, -9/+2For Windows just use windows media encoder...
- inactive, on 06/22/2008, -13/+1This is really interesting. The comments were even more wonderful to read.
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/686/burybrigade ... - gooberguy, on 06/22/2008, -16/+1funny i installed ubuntu on my laptop yesterday to check it out, but gave up after my wireless didn't work. lmao :(
- SnowCrashv5, on 06/22/2008, -22/+5meh, this is one place linux falls short. I had originally designed my tutorial site (tuxtraining.com ) to be linux video tutorials, but after playing around for hours and figuring out the BEST way to capture both audio and video simuntaneously was to do a vnc session from a Windows box to the linux box and to record that on windows, i just gave up and went to text tutorials. It got annoying after a while.
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