Istanbul – desktop session recorder

Last Updated on July 11, 2021

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.

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.

Website: wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Istanbul
Support:
Developer: Zaheer Abbas Merali and contributors
License: GNU GPL v2

Istanbul is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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