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How to record screen activities in Ubuntu

A very nice program screen recorder to record your screen actives is  recordmydesktop.This software is open source popular not only using in Ubuntu but also in genneral Linux Operating system, with Ubuntu you can download  and install this pre-builed screen recorder package via ap-get or .deb.With your normal linux you can download the source code and compile by youself.

1. Install recordmydesktop

tam@pc:~$ sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop

2.Using recordmydesktop to record your screen.

  • To start record type
    • tam@pc:~$ mydesktoprecord
  • To stop hold keyboard Ctrl+C

3.Convert .ogg to .avi. Usually the output of recordmydesktop program is .ogg file.If you need to convert to avi file you can using ffmpeg to convert to avi.

ffmpeg -i file.ogg  file.avi

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