#!# Recording Your Desktop //FreeBSD

In this guide, I will show you how to record videos off your desktop, and convert them into usable files.
This can be used in both linux and BSD unixes.

<guide>

Start off by grabbing a copy of gtk-recordmydesktop.

For users using Linux do

<example>
sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop
</example>

For FreeBSD users do

<example>
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gtk-recordmydesktop && make install clean
</example>

Once your program has been fetched, built, and installed, it is ready for use. Open it up and select where to save it. Move to your directory and simply type the file name. --that's all there is to it.

You can control your desktop utility using right and left clicking on the icon in the system tray. Right click to pause, left click it while paused to stop. Left click it while stopped to start a new recording. Left click it while it is paused to continue your recording.

To stop your video, left click your icon while recording save your file. Unfortunately however; your file will be saved as *.ogv. But I will show you how to convert it using ffmpeg.

<converting your video>

Alright, for this you will again need your shell, you could do a simple:

<example>
ffmpeg -i imput.ogv output.avi
</example>

But those turn out as shit, and are low quality videos. ffmpeg definitely does a trollololol on ya there. But I particularly like the *.mkv extension, and is better than *.avi imho for uploading on youtube and the like, so here's the syntax for it::

<example>
ffmpeg -i imputfile.ogv -vcodec libx264 -vpre medium -crf 24 -threads 0 -acodec copy outputfile.mkv
</example>

</converting your video>

That's all there is to it!

</guide>

Although my guides are aimed at being extremely simple, self explanatory, and don't require pictures as they're quick and easy to follow broken down steps. I don't aim to make short and quick guides, I aim for them to be fool proof. But I feel an image could be useful here, I'll imgur ya'll an image of converting a *.ogv video into a *.mkv video for user simplicity incase you get lost in that aforementioned steps.

###UNDERSTANDING THIS IMAGE###
Everything to the left of the purple line, is irc, disregard that. The text highlighted in the red box is the example I'm trying to express. (the conversion example mentioned previously.) Everything in the yellow box is output from your system while it is converting the video.

 

May I give you a few suggestions?

1. Run your thread through a spelling check system. Sythe has one, you just have to turn it on.
2. Incorporate pictures within the thread, not just dumping them at the end.
3. Spend more time with each guide. You wrote a ton of them in a very short amount of time.
4. Fix some of the coding in the thread. Color codes are off.

 

Thanks, I like suggestions I missed that bit of coloring and misspelled definitely. >.<

The picture is exactly where it needs to be. I don't post pictures to make a tutorial look "pretty".

My tutorials are here to help people gain an understanding. For a picture to be submitted, they need to fall into at least one of these catagories:

Do they help the reader understand my tutorials?
Are they necessary?

I believe this image is exactly where it needs to be. Furthermore; It matters not in the time frame my tutorials came out. I believe it's 8 tutorials in a little over a week. Doesn't matter, whenever one comes to mind I'll write it.

I have no plans to quite writing guides, I've been quite busy irl here recently. Friday I'll find myself with alot more free time. I'll probably introduce a little Forensics. Neat topic

As for pictures, it's impossible for me to supply pictures for windows topics as all my systems run FreeBSD :x So you'll have to pardon me if I don't post pictures for "//Windows" I just don't have a windows computer around to do that with. But I'll see if I can't get windows up and running in a VM. Get some pics.

Thanks for your imput, 1ce