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recordmydesktop

I have written before about desktop session recording software, particularly byzanz and Istanbul, both of which do a decent job but without sound. The latest package I have tried is called recordmydesktop and as far as I know its the only one that records sound as well as video. Here's a clip featuring bongo, a great music player for emacs.



To get sound working you need set alsa to record from the `wave' device of your sound card (actually there are plenty of other ways but this worked for me.) I used `gnome-alsamixer' for this as it was the only mixer that showed me the little `rec' checkbox, I was unable to figure out how to set a device to record in the console alsamixer.

The Debian version of recordmydesktop is not new enough to use with sound as it has some issues with choppy sound, so after installing libxdamage-dev, libvorbis-dev and libtheora-dev, the latest cvs version from their site compiled with no problems.

The default output is in ogg format, I know linux users won't have a problem seeing it, I *think* Windows Media Player can show oggs, let me know if it dosen't work for you.