I'm afraid that so far I've had no success with this at all. First I tried the recommended Simple Screen Recorder, only this doesn't appear in the debian testing repos, so I tried to compile it, making sure I had all the headers installed. However it failed at the configure stage with: checking for libavformat/avformat.h... yes checking for av_guess_format in -lavformat... no configure: error: required library missing However, in /usr/include/libavformat/avformat.h we have: /** * Return the output format in the list of registered output formats * which best matches the provided parameters, or return NULL if * there is no match. * * @param short_name if non-NULL checks if short_name matches with the * names of the registered formats * @param filename if non-NULL checks if filename terminates with the * extensions of the registered formats * @param mime_type if non-NULL checks if mime_type matches with the * MIME type of the registered formats */ AVOutputFormat *av_guess_format(const char *short_name, const char *filename, const char *mime_type); RecordMyDesktop doesn't seem to like my screen resolution, although the error message it gives is somewhat confusing. The popup window says 'improper window specification', but in the error log I get: #recordMyDesktop stderror output: Window size specification out of bounds!(current resolution:1920x1080) The actual window size was 720 x 530, and I got exactly the same error if I tried to grab a small area of the screen. Finally, I tried byzanz-record from the command line (their website options don't match what you get with --help). In this case I could record about 10 seconds, which is the default value. After this it would either segfault, or appear to carry on recording and consuming a *lot* of CPU power. The resultant file would again only play (in VLC) for about 10 seconds. Where too next? I'm using the current debian 'jessie' on a quad core 64bit AMD -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

On 07/24/2014 08:34 PM, David Santamauro wrote: I filed that bug almost 4 years ago. At that time RecordMyDesktop was already suffering from severe bitrot. regarding SSR, there are also packages here: https://launchpad.net/~maarten-baert/+archive/ubuntu/simplescreenrecorder Jeremy

On 07/24/2014 09:51 AM, Will Godfrey wrote: Hmm, I've used PPAs containing packages made for Ubuntu on my Debian Sid systems without any problems. -- David W. Jones gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com

2014-07-24 14:56 GMT-03:00 Will Godfrey <willgodfrey(a)musically.me.uk>uk>: Hi Will, I don't know if you tried this screencasting solution with JACK provided by J. Liles: http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2013-August/093893.h… I couldn't make it work because audio and video were not in sync, it seems that my system is quite slow to process this solution. Maybe it worth a try. Good luck.

An update on this. I still haven't been able to get simple screen recorder to compile, but have discovered what the problem was with recordmydesktop. In version 0.3.8 - as in debian testing - there is (at least) one error in the parser: Image Options --windowid=id_of_window id of window to be recorded. --display=DISPLAY Display to connect to. -x, --x=N>=0 Offset in x direction. -y, --x=N>=0 Offset in y direction. I'm guessing that the gui add-on is using the double dash version of the x & y positions, which is what I was doing. For some reason this gives a stupidly large screen size and the program quits. Using the single dash version seems to work, but you then seem to need just about all the parameters to be correctly set. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.