Other alternatives: xvidcap and/or recordmydesktop
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 20, 2007 04:40 PM
Just my 2 Cents.
I've tried <a href="http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/" title="sourceforge.net">http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/</a sourceforge.net> Version 1.1.4 in the past and at the time I thought, that I had it all figured out, but now, that I wanted to really put it to the test, it failed on me. I simply wasn't able to produce a recording with good sound. I tried the various settings with Xvid, Quicktime, Mpeg2 output formats, but really wasn't able to produce anything satisfactory. Sound was always garbled. Xvidcap produced a pretty high system load on my configuration (old 2800+ AMD).
So, at this time my bets are on <a href="http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/" title="sourceforge.net">http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/</a sourceforge.net>. Worked immediately like a charm. Including native ALSA support and thereby producing very decent sound. Typical usage (recorded window is 800x600):
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Other alternatives: xvidcap and/or recordmydesktop
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 20, 2007 04:40 PMI've tried <a href="http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/" title="sourceforge.net">http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/</a sourceforge.net> Version 1.1.4 in the past and at the time I thought, that I had it all figured out, but now, that I wanted to really put it to the test, it failed on me. I simply wasn't able to produce a recording with good sound. I tried the various settings with Xvid, Quicktime, Mpeg2 output formats, but really wasn't able to produce anything satisfactory. Sound was always garbled. Xvidcap produced a pretty high system load on my configuration (old 2800+ AMD).
So, at this time my bets are on <a href="http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/" title="sourceforge.net">http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/</a sourceforge.net>. Worked immediately like a charm. Including native ALSA support and thereby producing very decent sound. Typical usage (recorded window is 800x600):
recordmydesktop -windowid 0x20ac4aa -fps 10 -device cmipci --on-the-fly-encoding --overwrite -delay 5
Produced out.ogg. Then two pass conversion and scaling down (Produces very good result):
ffmpeg -i out.ogg -b 384000 -s 640x480 -pass 1 -passlogfile log-file out.flv
ffmpeg -i out.ogg -b 384000 -s 640x480 -pass 2 -passlogfile log-file out.flv
flvtool2 -UP out.flv
That's it and doesn't put so much strain on the system.
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