Himanshu Arora / IDG Himanshu Arora / IDGĮxploring the many input and output options SimpleScreenRecorder offers The tool offers detailed settings related to video/audio input and output, and it allows you to save your settings as profiles. There's also an option to select a screen (in case of multiple displays) as well as record OpenGL video. Aside from letting you record the entire screen, a specific window or a region of the screen, the tool allows you to live-stream your recording on YouTube. SimpleScreenRecorder is a GUI-based screencasting tool for Linux. Streaming to Facebook Live in ScreenStudio SimpleScreenRecorder For example, there's no option to pause/resume recordings, and you can't simply click on a window to record it. While the tool offers some useful and interesting features - such as the ability to add background music to your recordings, record from multiple displays, and save recording profiles as XML files - it has its share of shortcomings as well. Himanshu Arora / IDGĪdding a label to a recording in ScreenStudioĪside from creating local recordings, ScreenStudio allows you to stream your recording to services such as YouTube, Facebook Live (shown above) and Twitch. To limit your recording to a particular area, you'll have to tweak the default position (x, y coordinates) of the selected video source(s) as well as their width and height. To start using the tool, you first have to select a video source - say, your desktop or webcam, or both. It supports various file formats including FLV, MOV, MP4 and GIF. ScreenStudio is a graphical screen recorder. There are some known limitations (mentioned on the tool's manual page, under BUGS), and RecordMyDesktop doesn’t offer either webcam recording or the ability to live-stream your recording. The tool offers several sound and performance-related settings (shown above) that you can access by clicking the Advanced button. Setting RecordMyDesktop's performance options However, when we tested the delay option, the recorded audio was out of sync with the video - it played a few seconds behind. Several other useful features, including the ability to pause video and to introduce an initial delay, are also supported. Selecting the area of the screen to record in RecordMyDesktopĪmong the tool's features that stand out is a Follow Mouse feature that makes sure the capture area follows your mouse cursor movement. You can left-click and drag on the image to select an area for recording (right-click to reset), or click the 'Select window' button to select a particular window. We tested the gtk-recordMyDesktop front end, which contains a small desktop preview image. RecordMyDesktop is primarily a command line-based screen recording tool, but there are two GUI front ends (gtk-recordMyDesktop and qt-recordMyDesktop) available as well. As for the unstable version, while the YouTube streaming functionality works like a charm, the webcam feature is currently broken - a black screen appears, but you can't see any webcam feed and nothing gets recorded. The most recent stable release (version 1.4.5) of Kazam that we tested doesn't offer any advanced features, but a release from the unstable channel (version 1.5.3) includes such features as the ability to live-stream (on YouTube) the recording and to record from the webcam feed. When run through the command line, Kazam also offers a 'God Mode' feature that lets you capture (in still screenshots) both the currently active window and the whole desktop in one go. Setting the recording preferences in Kazam 1.4.5 Kazam offers all the basic screencasting features, including the ability to select a particular window, area or the whole screen for recording record multiple displays and pause an ongoing recording. Aside from recording video, the tool also has a built-in feature that helps users take screenshots. Kazam is a GUI-based screen recording tool. Recording from multiple displays in Byzanz Kazam However, unlike many other tools, Byzanz doesn’t provide an option to stream recordings online - you can’t live-stream on YouTube or Facebook, for instance. The tool also allows you to record from multiple displays. Timing a video recording to the duration of a command execution in Byzanz For example, you can set a specific duration time for a recording, limit the recording time to the time it takes to execute a particular command, and more. The tool also allows you to record to its internal debugging format (.byzanz) this is useful for benchmarking purposes or in cases where you want to convert the recording to any other supported format later.īyzanz is easy to install and use, and it offers a number of useful features. It creates animated GIFs by default, although you can also save your recording as an FLV, OGG, OGV or WebM file. Byzanz is a command line-based desktop recording tool.
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