need good way to create screencast

[Jason Paul Joines]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: need good way to create screencast
From: A. Jorge Garcia <calcpage at aol.com>
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Date: 2011.11.20.Sun.21:00:13
> From: Jason Paul Joines <jason at joines.org>
> To: Ubuntu Users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Sun, Nov 20, 2011 8:52 pm
> Subject: Re: need good way to create screencast
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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.
>
>
> I had a hard time with recordmydesktop.
>
> I would recommend http://screencast-o-matic.com which I have used for 
> quite some time without a hitch!
>
> HTH,
> A. Jorge Garcia
> Applied Math and CompSci
> http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
> http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009
>
>
>


     Screencast-o-matic.com definitely works better than anything else 
I've tried so far.  It doesn't seem to do full screen though.  The 
controls take up a lot of room at the bottom so when you size the 
recording area it leaves the taskbar area and controls area unselected.  
I need to record a full screen presentation so it then cuts that much 
off the bottom of my LibreOffice Impress presentation.  Also, the free 
version only does 15 minutes and I need to record about an hour.  Still, 
it's probably worth the $12 for one year price since it's the only thing 
working really at all so far.


Jason
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