How to record a screencast

[Dazed_75]

I take that back.  Suddenly I don't seem to be able to play much of anything

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was not able to get your youtube video to play though I normally have no
> problems with it.
>
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Ariel Gold <arielqgold at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Actually it looks like recordmyDesktop requires an X server.
>>
>> 2010/5/20 Ariel Gold <arielqgold at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at TheONealAndAssociates.com>* wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From: Bryan O'Neal <Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Off site automated backups
>>>>>>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <
>>>>>>> plug-discuss at 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 at 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 at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=eric.cope@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> >* wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From: Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=eric.cope@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Off site automated backups
>>>>>>>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <
>>>>>>>> plug-discuss at 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 at 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 at 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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>>>>>>>>> from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Stephen
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