Actually it looks like recordmyDesktop requires an X server.
2010/5/20 Ariel Gold <
arielqgold@gmail.com>
> avidemux is a video editor, though I haven't done any editing with it.
> Floss Manuals has a manual on avidemux, and other video software....
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/
>
> Also, if you are doing any recording on a server without X, note, as the
> name implies, gtk-recordmydesktop is a frontend for recordmydesktop
>
>
> 2010/5/20 Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal@theonealandassociates.com>
>
>> Can you edit the video with avidemux? Because I would, by nature of the
>> beast, be working on more then one machine and would need to cut and past
>> sections of video into each other for a clear presentation.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Ariel Gold <arielqgold@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thought I'd start a new thread since Bryan asked about screencasting...
>>>
>>> gtk-recordmydesktop worked the best of all the tools i tried.
>>>
>>> You might be able to record sound and audio at once, but that didn't work
>>> on my aging laptop. I found that recording audio and video actually worked
>>> well as a workflow, aging laptop aside, because you can focus on actually
>>> doing what your're doing on the screen, and then when you're playing it
>>> back, you can sit back and tell people what you are doing.
>>>
>>> So it takes a few steps.
>>>
>>> First, record your screen with gtk-recordmydesktop. That's
>>> straightforward.
>>>
>>> Then play it back and record an audio track. I used
>>> gnome-sound-recorder. Then to put the two togetheri I used avidemux.
>>>
>>> After you open your video with avidemux go to the "Audio -> Main Track"
>>> and select the filetype you want to add (ie. external mp2/3, wav). Then
>>> select the sound file and it should work. Maybe there's a quicker way to add
>>> the audio track from the command line?
>>>
>>> gtk-recordmydesktop outputs an ogv file, which avidemux won't open. so I
>>> converted using ffmpeg -i filename.ogv filename.avi. Then you can make the
>>> final file a flv or whatever...
>>>
>>> Here's what I ended up with:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4kOEF8kcc
>>>
>>> Look forward to watching some screencasts on things like load-balancing!
>>>
>>> -Ari
>>>
>>> 2010/5/20 Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal@theonealandassociates.com>
>>>
>>>> If some one finds me a F/OSS desktop recorder and a way to edit and drop
>>>> sound on it I will do video :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I think video is the way to go if you are so inclined.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------
>>>>> Keith Smith
>>>>>
>>>>> --- On *Thu, 5/20/10, Bryan O'Neal
>>>>> <Bryan.ONeal@TheONealAndAssociates.com>* wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal@TheONealAndAssociates.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Subject: Re: Off site automated backups
>>>>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>>>>> >
>>>>> Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 5:05 PM
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Use RSnapshot.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is funny you are going down each of my presentations (ASULUG, PLUG,
>>>>> ABLEConf) for the last year in reverse order. If only you had one about
>>>>> VPN's in there is would have hit all four! :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Makes me think I really should put that stuff on my blog at some point
>>>>> ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:51 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=klsmith2020@yahoo.com>
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm already rsyncing to a backup server. The short coming someone
>>>>>> pointed out would be if a table was dropped by accident or by a successful
>>>>>> hacker then the rsync would replicate the changes to the backup server,
>>>>>> leaving me with a real problem. So what I want to do is dump the data, tar
>>>>>> it and store it off site.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can write a script to ftp the tarball, however I was wondering if
>>>>>> there was a service that will just ftp in and copy what is there. That
>>>>>> would be the simplest. Of course it would have to be SFTP.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ------------------------
>>>>>> Keith Smith
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --- On *Thu, 5/20/10, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=eric.cope@gmail.com>
>>>>>> >* wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=eric.cope@gmail.com>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Off site automated backups
>>>>>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <
>>>>>> plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us<http://mc/compose?to=plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 4:37 PM
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> is FTP necessary or can you rsync them?
>>>>>> Eric
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=cryptworks@gmail.com>
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> in many many ways really.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the simplest "dirt" thing that comes to mind is a cronjob/backup
>>>>>>> script useing tar with compression the files you want to save then and ftp
>>>>>>> command to push the newly created file.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I know there are tools that can automate this im sure.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:20 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=klsmith2020@yahoo.com>
>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Man I've got 3 threads going at once. Thanks for all your help.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I want to do some automated backups and I've got this picture in my
>>>>>>>> head of a service that can be configured to upload files from a specified
>>>>>>>> folder by configuring it to FTP into my server.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is that possible?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ------------------------
>>>>>>>> Keith Smith
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Stephen
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