recordMyDesktop

recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder for GNU / Linux that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at it's primary task.

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recordmydesktop is a desktop session recorder for gnu / linux that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at it's primary 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 (gtkrecordmydesktop) and pyqt4 (qtrecordmydesktop).

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Capture Video Record desktop activity Record videos

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