recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder for

GNU / linux



task.

As such, 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 commandline tool (which essentially is recordMyDesktop),

is written in C,

while there are two frontends,

written in python with

pyGtk (gtk-recordMyDesktop) and

pyQt4 (qt-recordMyDesktop).



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





Before using recordMyDesktop, it is suggested that you

visit the Documentation section of this site and in particular,

read the User Guide, in order to get a better understaning of

how to use the program.





Also,

recordMyDesktop produces files using only open formats

These are theora for video and vorbis for audio,

using the ogg container.

(To learn more about free formats visit Xiph.org, the foundation

responsible for the aformentioned formats).

