desktop capture

[Thomas Milne]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Thomas Milne wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Is there a solid desktop capture app for Linux, the open source one I
>>> found
>>> are pretty crap, some don't work, one of them had ugly artifacts.
>>>
>>
>> ffmpeg comes with one that I've used in the past with good results.
>> Been awhile though, and it's command line only.
>>
>> Something like this:
>>
>> ffmpeg -f x11grab outfile
>>
>> but you would need to specify some codecs, bitrates and so on in there
>> too.
>>
>> Make sure you're using a _real_ ffmpeg from Debian Multimedia, and not
>> some crippled and out-of-date one like Ubuntu ships.
>>
>>
>
> Thomas thanks, I'm building it from source now and will play around with it.

>From source?? Wow, okay, that can be quite an exercise. Just make sure
you build it with --enable-x11grab, or whatever the necessary switch
is when you do ./configure.

You're using Ubuntu, no? Why not just install it from Debian Multimedia?

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