Linux And Free Software Tips, Tricks And Tutorials, fun with Free Software Options

[hildebrand]

I am starting this thread with a long term perspective to put together lots of useful information for our programs.
Request all to participate in this thread to spread the word about all the lovely things that can be done on Linux.

The distribution I use is Debian (from www.debian.org) but most tricks shall be generic in nature (program based). Many of the softwares are available on windows also so some tips maybe applicable for their windows versions also.

This post has been edited by hildebrand: Oct 10 2009, 07:19 PM

[hildebrand]

Tip #9: Screen Capture Software
Often for presentations we have a requirement to store a video of desktop to demonstrate features of software.

recordmydesktop is a good lightweight utility to record the desktop. It is available on all GNU/Linux Box

Syntax for using it is simple:-

$recordmydesktop output.ogv

There is another software called xvidcap too but is more crash prone articularly for full size video.

after recording you can resize it to desired size using

CODE

$vlc -I dummy out.ogv vlc:quit --sout "#transcode{ vcodec = theo, width = 512, height = 384 }:duplicate{ dst = std{ access = file, mux=ogg, dst = \"out_512x384.ogv\" }}" --sout-theora-quality=3

PS: approximate size of file was 4MB per minute.

There is a graphical frontend gtk-recordmydesktop also available. Some other softwares like istanbul, captury are also available.

You can also use Shutter from http://shutter-project.org/ which is much more feature rich than some other softwares for the same job.

This post has been edited by hildebrand: Sep 30 2009, 01:44 PM