Istanbul
Istanbul is a desktop
session recorder for the Free Desktop. It records your session into an
Ogg Theora video file.
To start the recording, you click on its icon in the
notification area. To stop you click its icon again. It can make a
screencast of the full screen or just of an area of the
screen. It is even capable of recording audio from the default input
channel.
Istanbul relies on screen capturing support provided by the
gstreamer-plugins package. Gstreamer is a popular multimedia
library.
It works on GNOME,
KDE,
Xfce
and other desktop environments.
Istanbul 0.2.2
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Price
Free to download
Size
0.3MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Zaheer Abbas Merali and contributors
Website
live.gnome.org/Istanbul
System Requirements
PyGTK 2.8 or higher
Gnome-python-extras 2.12 or higher
gst-python 0.10.0 or higher
Gstreamer 0.10.0 or higher
Gst-plugins-base 0.10.0 or higher
python-xlib
Support
Sites:
FAQ
Selected
Reviews:
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Features include:
- Outputs to patent-free Ogg format
- Ability to select a window to record
- Ability to start a screencast from the command line
- Live recording of audio synchronised with the
screencast video
- Uses gconf to store settings
- Change framerate
- Stream to Icecast2 servers
- Encode at a later date
- Disable recording the mouse pointer
- Enable 3D captures
- Scale the recorded video
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Last Updated Monday, February 06 2012 @ 05:31 AM EST
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