On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 13:43 +0100, Mick wrote: > On 5 July 2010 08:43, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> 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
