Schalk, Thanks I was wondering about horse power, I've got an AMD 3000+ with 1gig ram. will wait bit longer as i know someone had used cinderalla (if that is the right spelling) and will also do some digging in the archives when i get home tonight.
thanks for your insights. Dave. ----- Original Message Follows ----- > On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 23:53 +1200, dave wrote: > > I am looking at installing Istanbul screencast software. > > > > Has anyone here used such a program and what was your > > experience? How easy was it to edit and the specs of > > your PC you used. > > From my brief search it looks like Istanbul is one > > option. > > in my repositories i have 3. > > - recordmydesktop which is gnome based > > - Byzanz which i understand uses gif files > > - Istanbul > > > > would appreciate the lists input and I do know from the > > brief search that there are other but war stories etc > > from the list on the 3 above (as they are in my > > repository would be appreciated). > > Dave. > Hi Dave, > > I tried to use Istanbul on Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) 64 bit, > but found that it was buggy and poorly maintained, > especially sound. It seems like you can't record sound. > If you use compiz, you also have to tick the "record 3d" > option before it works at all. > > recordmydesktop however worked out of the box (default > sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop) - no extra settings > or anything. Even the sound worked perfectly. > > I cannot comment on Byzanz, but if you want my advice, go > with recordmydesktop first and see if you like it. Seems > like the least effort. > > My laptop has 4Gb of RAM and a Intel Core2 Duo (2.10GHz) > processor and I use the nvidia driver - I did not pick up > any sluggishnes while recording, but having said that, I > did not test it with intense graphic programs so far... > > Schalk > >
