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 Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2025 4:16 am Post subject: Recording a Desktop session using Linux. |
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Recording a Desktop session using Linux.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, I'd hate to calculate what a video is worth then. The usefulness of this application is probably underated. Let's say you wanted to show someone a complicated gimp procedure, but you can't show them in person, as you live on different continents. VNC would work, but if it's complicated, it would be nice to have the "instructions" saved as a video. So you could record it and send it via the web or on a cd/dvd, or perhaps you "could" vnc in and show them and they could use this app and record the entire process on their end, saving the huge download or delay in mail. Either way, recording the desktop session is a handy thing to do at times. Perhaps you just want to record your Beryl session and shove it in your buddys face because he's still using that inferior OS.
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more at the above link....
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| has it been updated?
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| There is the normal bbips which uses a menu system....... then i also created the command line utilities shown in the video above. The command line programs I wrote last and are pretty handy for quick manipulation of all the images in a directory... from a shell session.
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Is the server crouse.us down?
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| jada wrote: | Is the server crouse.us down?
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It loads fine for me. Maybe you tried during a scheduled server back-up session?
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neato.
I assume it creates large files because its not doing expensive compression on the fly (and people might want the full quality video too).
I'm sure re-encoding the video would allow you to create reasonably distributable videos.
I'm a fan of "wink" myself
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.html
It's specifically geared towards creating tutorial-like vidoes. Instead of just recording your desktop, it records desktop events - allowing you to to stop the video at mouse clicks and add on-screen dialogs and stuff. It's quite easy to use (well to be honest, I've only used it in windows, but they do have a linux version).
http://www.andrewpangborn.com/blog/?/archives/12-Wink.html
You end up with flash-videos that are quite small (smaller than a large 29fps video would be).
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Gave wink a quick try - clue for the Linux version ...Num Lock must be off. Didn't get timed mode to work, but still, got four 1024 x 768 screenshots, added notes, and came up with 220 Kb file size. Nice find.
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