Screencast

[ozhank]

I am trying to capture screencast for showing grandchildren how to play and some escapades. I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I've tried vlc, and recordmydesktop. Both start off OK, but all I get is a black screen for the duration of the recording - the opening screen shows, but once it goes to full screen, nothing but black!

I would really appreciate some assistance with this please.

I've just added BGS and some other updated OXPs - it has made a great improvement with background noises and a changed screen when docked. Thanks to all the authors, debuggers involved.

[Smivs]

Take a look at this - this is how I do mine.

Edited to correct link to 'SmivsTV'.

[ozhank]

Thanks - can't see the 'this', but will try the ffmpeg today while travesinn the Ooverse.

[Diziet Sma]

Thanks Smivs.. I've had some success using Kazam Screencaster to record Oolite on Linux Mint, but no joy on the audio side, unfortunately. I followed the instructions at the link you provided, and have spent a couple of hours or so recompiling the libraries and FFmpeg. Now to start playing with it and see how things go!

Thanks - can't see the 'this', but will try the ffmpeg today while travesinn the Ooverse.

I'm not sure why you couldn't see the link.. here is a direct link (start with the second post):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1392026

The article also has a lot of examples and explanations of how to use and get the most out of ffmpeg.

The article links to a page detailing how to recompile the libraries and ffmpeg. You'll need to do this to get things to work properly. On my old AMD Athlon 1.1GHz machine it took around 2 hours to compile everything.
Direct link to recompiling instructions: https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/Ubu ... ationGuide


Edit: Oops.. I guess you meant you can't see the 'mine'.. Smivs, your second link doesn't link to anything!

[CommRLock78]

Thanks Smivs.. I've had some success using Istanbul to record Oolite on Linux Mint, but no joy on the audio side, unfortunately. I followed the instructions at the link you provided, and have spent a couple of hours or so recompiling the libraries and FFmpeg. Now to start playing with it and see how things go!

Thanks - can't see the 'this', but will try the ffmpeg today while travesinn the Ooverse.

I'm not sure why you couldn't see the link.. here is a direct link (start with the second post):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1392026

The article also has a lot of examples and explanations of how to use and get the most out of ffmpeg.

The article links to a page detailing how to recompile the libraries and ffmpeg. You'll need to do this to get things to work properly. On my old AMD Athlon 1.1GHz machine it took around 2 hours to compile everything.
Direct link to recompiling instructions: https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/Ubu ... ationGuide


Edit: Oops.. I guess you meant you can't see the 'mine'.. Smivs, your second link doesn't link to anything!

Well I tried Istanbul and ffmpeg - let's just say the results didn't leave much to be desired . I wish you luck Ozhank - this seems to be a bit of a trick to get to work properly.

[Smivs]

Ha, updated the link to 'SmivsTV' in my post above to one that should work.
The only problem I've had using ffmpeg and the method outlined in the article I linked to is that the audio goes out of synch a bit, and this is quite noticeable on longer recordings - the audio lags behind the corresponding video. I currently overcome this by editing the audio track, which is a time-consuming affair. If anybody knows a way to keep the audio in synch I'd be very interested to learn how to do this.

[Diziet Sma]

Well I tried Istanbul and ffmpeg - let's just say the results didn't leave much to be desired . I wish you luck Ozhank - this seems to be a bit of a trick to get to work properly.

Gahh! I should have said Kazam Screencaster, not Istanbul.. (that's what comes of having a whole bunch of desktop recording apps installed for testing) sorry!

Original post edited.

[CommRLock78]

Well I tried Istanbul and ffmpeg - let's just say the results didn't leave much to be desired . I wish you luck Ozhank - this seems to be a bit of a trick to get to work properly.

Gahh! I should have said Kazam Screencaster, not Istanbul.. (that's what comes of having a whole bunch of desktop recording apps installed for testing) sorry!

Original post edited.

I know the feeling! I have such ridiculous amount of disk space on my Mint partition that I have pretty well installed every app that seemed even remotely interesting .

[ozhank]

Thanks to all the suggestions, I can now get a screencast, but no sound (working on this), but not at full screen mode, only in window mode, so all my Unity icons etc show. But I am working on it.

I've installed the new BGS.oxp - huge improvement to the look of Oolite.

[CommRLock78]

Thanks to all the suggestions, I can now get a screencast, but no sound (working on this), but not at full screen mode, only in window mode, so all my Unity icons etc show. But I am working on it.

I've installed the new BGS.oxp - huge improvement to the look of Oolite.

Curious as to whether you got this working or not. I haven't had much luck with it, but with all the eye candy, settings, a little hyper radio for ambiance, and I could really make some good videos ,