{"id":818,"date":"2007-04-13T15:38:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T05:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/i-heart-recordmydesktop\/"},"modified":"2013-12-18T08:50:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:50:50","slug":"i-heart-recordmydesktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/i-heart-recordmydesktop\/","title":{"rendered":"I heart recordMyDesktop"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I wanted to get some feedback before I presented my sessions<\/a> at the upcoming MySQL Conference<\/a> (be there, it’ll be cool). I thought… hrrm.. distributed company… I can’t just ask a couple of people to listen to me in the conference room as we don’t really have one (apart from IRC).<\/p>\n

So… I thought.. hrrm… didn’t i see something about screencasting on the program for linux.con f.au<\/a> ? Well, the answer was yes – Screencasting HOWTO<\/a>. Started watching – I then proceeded to try the list of screencasting software.<\/p>\n

Istanbul didn’t work – I got images and audio, but only when there was a change to what was being displayed… so a static slide with me talking, didn’t work. Same with a similar python script.<\/p>\n

I then grabbed recordMyDesktop<\/a> and it worked. .\/configure; make; .\/src\/recordMyDesktop\u00c2\u00a0 …. and ctrl-c when done.. encodes to Ogg Theora and *WORKS*<\/p>\n

Brilliant.<\/p>\n

I then got to convince some coworkers to spend time listening to me speak about stuff they may already know to test it before the conf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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