Good question. I had been using camstudio in the past just to do raw capture, but that project hasn’t really been actively worked on for quite some time. VLC can do screen cap, as well as ffmpeg raw, provided you don’t need anything fancy to happen and are ok with the shell params to get it working.
recordMyDesktop was a good project - it was dead simple and dead easy to use. Unfortunately, as dead things go, the project’s been dead since 2008 and doesn’t work for me in Plasma 5.
I record screencasts using command-line and ffmpeg. Well, using a script. It’s automatic, fool-proof and more customizable than any UI would allow, the only downside currently is that I must specify the recording window in pixels if I don’t want to record full-screen. Do you happen to know of a Linux utility or method for being able to click on a window to get its coordinates? The way scrot lets you select one with -s
So far I’m using kazam, but it’s a bit of a pain to get the audio right for me, involves spinning up qjackctl and ardour setting up everything there and then recording with kazam. But I guess I can’t really blame it for not supporting ffado (firewire audio on linux), but some basic audio features would be nice (eq, compressor, limiter, maybe a desser).
Cam studio and sharex both look quite windows only.
