Take a video from your Linux desktop

To record a video from your desktop (like a screenshot, just in video), open a console, then

• decide if your current resolution fits. If it does not, change it using xrandr, e.g.

xrandr -s "640x480"

• install recordmydesktop, in this example for SUSE Linux:

yast -i recordmydesktop

• start the video recording with the command

recordmydesktop

• the result will be a file e.g. out-1.ogv. To convert it to a more efficient size, use e.g.

ffmpeg -i out-1.ogv -f mp4 out-1.mp4

Record a window only

Use xwininfo to find out the window ID, then start recordmydesktop like

recordmydesktop --windowid 0x2400014

Alternatives

• recordmydesktop
• xvidcap

See also

• http://community.kde.org/Promo/youtube