Record Your Desktop Activities With recordMyDesktop

By ANTHONIRAJ on June 7th, 2009

recordMyDesktop is the open source software written in C language that performs the basic tasks of screen capturing and encoding. It is used for showing demo about the particular software and giving lecture about the topic etc … The screen capture activities would be saved in .ogv open movie format which can be easily playable in any player and also we can convert .ogv to any other movie file format like flash , .avi . It can be downloaded from the following URL

http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

Features of recodMyDesktop

  • You can capture the specific area [ Window ]  or entire desktop
  • Video and Audio can be recorded simultaneously [ .ogv movie file ]
  • Both command [recordMyDesktop] and graphical user interface [python or GTK version ] are available
  • Compatible with most of Linux Distributions [ Ubuntu , OpenSuse , Fedora , freeBSD , Salckware ]
  • Its very fast comparing with other screen recoding software

ScreenShot

ScreenShot

Installation Procedure

For Debian Based [ E.g. Ubuntu ] Users

  1. Install using synaptic package manager or
  2. Type the given command in terminal

# sudo apt-get install gtk-recordMyDesktop

For RPM Based [ E.g. Fedora ] User

  1. Install using Add and Remove Packages or
  2. Type the given command in terminal

#su

[Type your password]

#yum install gtk-recordMyDesktop

For Command Line Users

1. Download the source and install in your system

# tar -xzvf recordmydesktop-0.3.8.1.tar.gz

# cd recordmydesktop-0.3.8.1

# ./configure

# make

# make install

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  1. TSP says:
    June 9, 2009 at 8:05 am

    he machi,
    fedora 11 will be released in one day and wordpress 2.8 RC is released and main version will be released by june 10 and it is very good. i tested

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