[LAU] Desktop recorders - was "Another Reality" LP

Johannes Kroll jkroll at lavabit.com
Wed May 29 10:39:32 UTC 2013


On Tue, 28 May 2013 13:35:36 -0700
"Len Ovens" <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 4:20 am, Louigi Verona wrote:
> > I would like to try it out. Any PPA for Precise?
> 
> > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Angel de Vicente <angelv at iac.es> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Louigi,
> >>
> >> Louigi Verona <louigi.verona at gmail.com> writes:
> >> > Many people ask for that and I will try. My problem is a bug in
> >> > RecordMyDesktop which crashes if you try to record audio with JACK, at
> >> > least on Ubuntu. The bug has been around for 2 years at the very
> >> > least, so I pretty much gave up on that. I will re-check and if not,
> >> > go for a workaround, although that might mean manual synchronization.
> >>
> >> I have no idea if it will work with JACK, but when I tried a couple of
> >> years ago, xvidcap gave me a much better quality than RecordMyDesktop:
> >>
> >> http://angel-de-vicente.blogspot.com.es/2011/03/screencasts-with-xvidcap-in-ubuntu-1004.html
> 
> As a UbuntuStudio team member, I would be very interested in your
> findings. We would like to include a desktop recorder, but would prefer
> the best we can ship. The xvidcap page says that xvidcap is an OSS audio
> application.

I tried several, and Kazam was the one that actually worked for me.
All the others have some embarassing problems, like not being able to
talk to their own backends, etc. Kazam just did what it said it did. It
uses PulseAudio, which can be configured to use Jack.




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