need good way to create screencast

[Jason Paul Joines]

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Subject: Re: need good way to create screencast
From: Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Date: 2011.11.20.Sun.17:12:54
> On Mon, November 21, 2011 00:01, Jason Paul Joines wrote:
>>       I'm running Kubuntu 11.04 on Lenovo ThinkPad T510 and trying to
>> make a video with audio of a LibreOffice Impress presentation I'm giving.
>>
>>       I've tried using istanbul, gtk-recordmydesktop, recorditnow, and
>> recordmydesktop.  In each case the video and audio get out of sync.
>> I've tried every combination of settings I could find via Google in any
>> forum post, YouTube video, bug report, etc., but nothing works.
>>
>>       The latest thing I've tried was to use the script posted in the bug
>> report at
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/recordmydesktop/+bug/339648
>> which records audio and video separately and then recombines them.  Just
>> in case anyone else tries that script, recordSoundAndDesktop.sh, I had
>> to replace the single dashes in the recordmydesktop line with double
>> dashes as in --fps and --v_quality.  The result was a video that was
>> still out of sync with the audio but also ran way too fast.
>>
>>       My sound hardware via hwinfo is:
>> 20: PCI 1b.0: 0403 Audio device
>>     [Created at pci.318]
>>     Unique ID: u1Nb.WiEkMfkoYv9
>>     SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0
>>     SysFS BusID: 0000:00:1b.0
>>     Hardware Class: sound
>>     Model: "Intel Ibex Peak High Definition Audio"
>>     Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
>>     Device: pci 0x3b56 "Ibex Peak High Definition Audio"
>>     SubVendor: pci 0x17aa "Lenovo"
>>     SubDevice: pci 0x215e
>>     Revision: 0x06
>>     Driver: "HDA Intel"
>>     Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel"
>>     Memory Range: 0xf2620000-0xf2623fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
>>     IRQ: 41 (25351 events)
>>     Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00003B56sv000017AAsd0000215Ebc04sc03i00"
>>     Driver Info #0:
>>       Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active
>>       Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel"
>>     Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
>>
>>
>>       Any ideas?
> recordmydesktop should just work, so my idea would be to file a bug report
> at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/recordmydesktop/+bug/
> First check if there is already a similar bug, but I suppose that you have
> already done that.
>
>
>
>

     I had already added my information to the existing bug report.  
That bug report is over two and a half years old so it seems unlikely to 
be fixed.


Jason
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