Desktop Screen Recorder Linux with audio

Desktop screen recording is in demand from a long and is proven a best method to explain the stuff in an interactive manners. Tis work like a charm whe you have to present a presentation but what if the same presentation need to be sent to client via email and there is no one there to explain him the stuff where slides are not sufficient to explain everything and even more time consuming. Then Desktop Screen Recording provides a best strategy to make your work easier. On Windows Machines people use many easy softwares to do the smae task but It is also simpel for linux users, you just only need to install a small utility xvidcap to do that. XvidCap is a very small utility and act as Desktop Screen Recorder Linux with audio. In my next session How you use VLC to recosrd your entire desktop activity.

Xvidcap is small tool which works with ffmpeg and some other libraries like libavcodec.

First you need to install EPEL for xvidcap

## For 32 bit machines
# wget http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/i386/nux-dextop-release-0-1.el6.nux.noarch.rpm

## For 64 bit machines
# wget http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-1.el6.nux.noarch.rpm

Once Downloaded Execute RPM

# rpm -Uvh nux-dextop-release-0-1.el6.nux.noarch.rpm

Now Install xvidcap on your RHEL / Centos Machines

# yum -y --enablerepo=nux-dextop install xvidcap

Now you can run xvidcap from command line

$ xvidcap

But here sometime It doesn’t work to record audio from microphone so to enable audio you run the same commadn with one parameter which will enbale audio in xvidcap for you.

Enabling audio recording in xvidcap

$ padsp xvidcap