WTF is it with this stuff? Do I *always* have to piss away 3 hrs getting something to work correctly?
recordmydesktop is a screen casting tool for recording audio and screen activity into a type of lecture.
out of the box lip sync is all fucked up. After screwing around with it and trying it on multiple computers I lucked out and found another blog that had most of what I needed. (google for “recordmydesktop broken pipe”) One of the hits is the one I used (thefunkcorner… “trials-with-recordmydesktop.html)
Anyway some of that didn’t apply to my hardware and after some more screwing around the magic command line to get a good screen cast with good lip sync is the following.
recordmydesktop --fps 5 --freq 44100 --buffer-size 65536 -device plughw:0,0 --windowid 0x1600003
You get the windowid using the xwindows command:
xwininfo
BTW for the screen cast of the console window session it gave me a data rate of 53KBS. Expect a file size of about 3MB per min out of the box.