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6 Tools To Record Your Linux Desktop

Searching for a screencasting software for your Linux machine? Look no more, here are 6 tools to help you!
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Thursday, October 10, 2013: Looking for a software that can screencast your Linux Desktop? EFYTimes brings to you a list of 6 slick screencasting tools for your Linux desktop. These six software run in every major distribution. All of these tools are open sourced, with the exception of Wink which is a no-charge closed source application. So get set to create your own tutorials, cheats, guides, gameplays and whatever where you want to record your own screen!

1. recordMyDesktop and frontends recordMyDesktop has both a command-line interface and two frontends, a GTK and a Qt graphical frontend. You can run it in a console, do whatever stuff you want to record, then hit Ctrl+C to stop it and recordMyDesktop will create an out.ogv (Ogg Theora) video file in the current working directory. If you need to customise the video settings for the screencast, you can do it either with the command-line tool or by using one of the graphical frontends. For example, to run the GTK application use gtk-recordmydesktop. recordMyDesktop will allow you to create a screencast and choose the video and audio quality, frame rate, include or exclude window decorations and the mouse pointer. It's easy to use and will surely do its job in a few clicks. Features include: - On the fly encoding - Encode the audio-video data while recording - Disable compression - Quick subsampling - Configurable capture rate - Produces files in open formats: Theora and vorbis - Directly interface with the ALSA or OSS sound system, or the software can connect to the recording port via the Jack audio server - Configurable, global shortcuts 2. XvidCap XVidCap is another pretty good GTK-based recording application. The first thing which comes into attention when starting XVidCap is a red rectangle which can be moved around and resized and which will allow you to record only a certain portion of the desktop.

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XVidCap allows you to save the screencast as an MPEG or AVI format.

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XVidCap allows you to save the screencast as an MPEG or AVI format.

- Save videos in MPEG or AVI format - Support for direct VOB creation, Flash Screen Video - Capture single frames, or encode captured frames to a video - Capture the mouse pointer - Record audio and video - Capture OpenGL accelerated graphics - Capture a running video (hardware acceleration on the graphics adapter needs to be disabled) - On-line encoding with FFmpeg libavcodec / libavformat - On-the-fly frame size reduction - Choose the number of frames to be captured per second - Specify the geometry - Dbus remote control application 3. Istanbul Istanbul is the easiest of all to use, but some users might find it a little slow when it comes to response time. The video encoding is little slow but you'll have to bear with it. Just like recordMyDesktop, Istanbul saves the screencasts into the free Ogg Theora format. Features include: Outputs to patent-free Ogg format Ability to select a window to record Ability to start a screencast from the command line Live recording of audio synchronised with the screencast video Uses gconf to store settings Change framerate Stream to Icecast2 servers Encode at a later date Disable recording the mouse pointer Enable 3D captures Scale the recorded video

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4. Wink Wink is a software tool to make presentations and tutorials about using software programs. A Wink presentation will resemble a live walkthrough about how to use the software. The author of the presentation can also add comments and explanations to parts of the presentation to better explain the concepts and usage to the end user. This software enables users to capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial. The basic output format of Wink is Flash. Features include: - Creates highly compressed Flash presentations ideal for using on the web - Record voice as you create the tutorial for explaining better - Input formats: Capture screenshots from your PC, or use images in BMP/JPG/PNG/TIFF/GIF formats - Output formats: Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML or any of the above image formats - Automatic input-driven capture of screenshots - Navigation buttons to move to next/previous/random frames in the presentation, you can use custom bitmaps for these buttons (full transparency/alpha channel support). - Callouts and shapes for displaying text explanations. The inbuilt Callout Editor is used to create custom shaped callouts - Intuitive drag-n-drop editing of the frame, callout, cursor, navigation buttons and the title elements. - Advanced features like templates, cursor editing, palettes, background images, control bars & preloaders for the flash output etc - Completely PC and Web ready with exports to PDF, HTML, SWF and formats - Innovative compression techniques applied to reduce the filesize of output Flash file. Generated flash file plays in Flash players from version 3 and above - Uncompressed output to allow you import the output of Wink into other Flash editors - Resize frames - Export/import the content of all textboxes and titles in a project - Export a Wink project as a PostScript (*.ps) file - Play audio tone when capturing screenshots - Customize screen capture hotkeys - Multilingual support: Works in English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Serbian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified/Traditional Chinese 5. pyvnc2swf Pyvnc2swf is a cross-platform screen recording tool. The sofware captures screen motion

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Pyvnc2swf is a cross-platform screen recording tool. The sofware captures screen motion through the VNC protocol and generates a Shockwave Flash (SWF) movie. Pyvnc2swf suite comes with three separate Python programs: 1) vnc2swf.py - a program captures a VNC sessions and records it in either SWF or VNCLog format. This is a VNC client and communicates directly with a VNC server. A user need to start a VNC server in advance 2) edit.py - Movie editor (This is NOT a general SWF file editor. It only supports movies generated by vnc2swf 3) play.py - Simple movie viewer Features include: - Recording: - Capture VNC sessions and record to either SWF or VNCLog format - Encode movies to FLV, SWF5, SWF7 or MPEG formats - Record the whole screen - Record a specific area by pointing out its dimensions - Creates an SWF file and an HTML file with the SWF embedded and looping endlessly - Captures via VNC and will therefore capture any desktop that you can connect to via VNC. It can therefore capture a GNOME, KDE, Xfce etc desktop - Use it to screencast Compiz - Movie editor - for editing or reorganizing one or multiple movies generated by vnc2swf.py - Supports converting a .vnc file into .swf movie - Change the encoding method - Attach MP3 audio to a movie - Extract images from a movie - Resampling/scaling/clipping a movie image - Simple movie viewer for SWF or VNC files - Add seek bar to recording 6. Byzanz Byzanz is a command-line / GNOME Panel applet which allows users to record their current desktop or parts of it to an animated GIF file. This is especially useful for publishing on the web, since every browser understands the GIF format. Byzanz is not limited to GNOME, you can use it under non-GTK environments like KDE as well. Features include: Record: Entire screen Single window Arbitrary region Optionally record the mouse cursor File caching which allows recording almost anything without losing frames Looping animation Customise the height and width of the recording Pass options to Byzanz via the command-line or using its Gnome panel applet

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