Linux has excellent tools for creating screencasts (screen recordings of your desktop), such as Kazam , which we've reviewed previously. However, despite its name, Simple Screen Recorder is undoubtedly the most powerful and complete, including features like multi-threaded recording (taking advantage of your multiple processors), adapting recording quality and speed for older computers, recording OpenGL applications, and much more.
Main features and functionalities
- Record OpenGL games / applications in full screen
- Keeps audio and video in sync
- Automatically lowers frame rate on slow computers
- Multi-thread application
- Lets you pause and resume a recording
- Optional audio recording
- Video upscaling
- Supports a wide variety of formats (based on libav / ffmpeg libraries)
- Allows you to preview before starting recording
- Allows you to set recording areas (a rectangle, full screen, only a space near the cursor, etc.)
- Choose the source of the audio (the sound played on the desktop, a microphone, etc.)
Installation
In Ubuntu and derivatives:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa: maarten-baert / simplescreenrecorder sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder
In case you want to burn 32-bit OpenGL applications on a 64-bit system:
sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder-lib: i386
In Arch and derivatives:
yaourt -S simplecreenrecorder-git
In case you want to burn 32-bit OpenGL applications on a 64-bit system:
yaourt -S lib32-simplescreenrecorder-git