Using recordmydesktop to upload to YouTube, Vimeo etc.

recordMyDesktop is a great tool to make videos of what you're doing with your computer. This can be very useful to demonstrate software features or to document workflows. By default, recordMyDesktop produces Ogg-Theora-Vorbis. If you want to share your files or upload them to a video site you'll want to convert them to something more common.

mencoder out.ogv -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts pass=1 -o out.avi

This will produce a video of good enough quality so that people can see what you are doing.Here's an example:

Title: VisiorMovies

Author: nkuttler

Please notice that mouse and click highlighting aren't recordMyDesktop features.

Published on June 21, 2010 at 3:10 p.m. by Nicolas and tagged Linux, usability, xorg, video. You can follow the discussion with the comment feed for this post.

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enriquemop wrote this comment on July 20, 2010, 3:41 p.m.

Muchas gracias!!!; es lo que necesitaba. Consegua-a grabar los videos pero luego al subirlos a youtube se veian mal, con esa linea de comandos se ven perfectos. Gracias.

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- nicolas wrote this comment on July 20, 2010, 11:09 p.m.
  
  de nada
  
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ismail wrote this comment on Sept. 8, 2010, 12:50 p.m.

mencoder creates a/v sync problem if video of one mint it returns just video of thirty seconds or more with skipping framess

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- nicolas wrote this comment on Sept. 9, 2010, 10:54 p.m.
  
  Interesting. I'm not sure I tried with sound yet. Thanks for the input!
  
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