recordMyDesktop

recordMyDesktop is a program that captures audio and video data from a Linux desktop session, producing an Ogg-encapsulated Theora-Vorbis file.

recordMyDesktop's main goal is to be as unobstrusive as possible by proccessing only regions of the screen that have changed.

Installation:

To compile the program you have to go through the regular drill:

~$ gzip -d recordmydesktop-x.y.z.tar.gz
~$ tar -x recordmydesktop-x.y.z.tar
~$ cd recordmydesktop-x.y.z
~$ ./configure
~$ make
~$ sudo make install

You will need the development headers for the following:

alsa (libasound)
X
libXext
libXdamage
libogg
libvorbis
libtheora

As well the regular headers, plus the ones for pthreads (both of which you should have if you have compiled anything else before).

Of the above, the most likely to be missing are probably those of libXdamage and libtheora but any recent linux distribution should offer an easy way to get them.

What is new in this release:

• Fixed a bug that caused compilation to fail on some platforms, due to missing headers.
• Minor code refactoring to assist maintainability and portability of the program.

What is new in version 0.3.8:

• The code has been refactored and cleaned up extensively to ease maintenance and bugfixes.
• The cursor-flickering bug has been fixed, color-space conversion has been corrected, detection of compositing window managers has been improved, and libjack is now linked normally during compilation instead of being dlopened later.