Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to capture a screen video?

[William Kenworthy]

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