 recordMyDesktop is a  desktop session recorder for  GNU / linux that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at it's primary task. As such, the program is separated in two parts; a simplecommand line tool that performs the basic tasks of capturing and encodingand an interface that exposes the programfunctionality in a usable way.The commandline tool (which essentially is recordMyDesktop),is written in C,  while there are two frontends,written in python with pyGtk (gtk-recordMyDesktop) and pyQt4 (qt-recordMyDesktop).  recordMyDesktop offers also the ability to record audiothrough ALSA, OSS or the JACK audio serverBefore using recordMyDesktop, **it is suggested that you visit the Documentation section**of this site and in particular, read the User Guide, in order to get a better understaning ofhow to use the program. Also, recordMyDesktop produces files using only open formats These are theora for video and vorbis for audio, using the ogg container.(To learn more about free formats visit Xiph.org, the foundationresponsible for the aformentioned formats). |