recordMyDesktop – desktop session recorder

Last Updated on October 17, 2022

recordMyDesktop is a program that captures audio-video data of a desktop session, producing an ogg-encapsulated theora-vorbis file.

recordMyDesktop tries to be as unobtrusive as possible by processing only regions of the screen that have changed.

The program is separated in two parts; a simple command line tool that performs the basic tasks of capturing and encoding and an interface that exposes the program functionality in a usable way. The frontend comes in two versions. One frontend is written with the gtk toolkit (named gtk-recordMyDesktop) and a more recent one with the Qt toolkit (qt-recordMyDesktop).

recordMyDesktop also offers the ability to record audio through ALSA, OSS or the JACK audio server.

Features include:

• On the fly encoding.
• Encode the audio-video data while recording.
• Disable compression.
• Quick subsampling.
• Configurable capture rate.
• Produces files in open formats: Theora and Vorbis.
• Directly interface with the ALSA or OSS sound system, or the software can connect to the recording port via the Jack audio server.
• Configurable, global shortcuts.

Website: recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net
Support: Documentation
Developer: John Varouhakis
License: GNU GPL

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

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