A video recording of the screen.
A screencast is a video recording of the contents of the screen. There are several tools for doing this in available for Ubuntu, such as recordmydesktop, tibesti and kazam.
Questions tagged [screencast]
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How can I record my screen?
How can I record my screen on Ubuntu?
The app I'm looking for has ideally all of these features:
Can record in a format that can be played back easily on any platform and/or accepted by YouTube or another popular video site
Can record just a…
Riccardo Murri
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How to create animated GIF images of a screencast?
I've seen animated GIF images of screen casts (like the one below) promoted a few times on this site as a way to improve answers.
What toolchain is being used to create these? Is there a program that does this automagically, or are people taking…
andrewsomething
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Ubuntu as Miracast Sender/receiver
I couldn't find anything about Ubuntu acting as a Miracast receiver or sender.
Can it work at all?
Are there hardware prerequisites?
Is WiFi a requirement or can it work over LAN or another kind of network connection?
WiFi direct seems to be a…
TiloBunt
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Samsung TV "Mirror Screen"
I would like to show the screen of my Ubuntu laptop on a Samsung TV.
The TV has a menu entry called "mirror screen".
But up to now I found no way to get it working.
I need a wireless way to us the TV as monitor.
Any hints?
Exact hardware version:…
guettli
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How do I highlight my mouse pointer while screen recording?
I'm planning to record some tutorial videos. How do I make a mouse pointer/cursor with yellow circle around it on Ubuntu 16.04, so my students could see where I am?
Kristaps G
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How can I record the screen as well as audio on Ubuntu?
That is for creating a video tutorial. I want the screen and my voice.
I have tried many recorder, but that only record the screen and internal video.
Vidhya Rajan
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Why are some of my screen-recording/capturing/sharing applications (or app features) not working in Ubuntu 17.10 (and later releases)?
After upgrading to Ubuntu 17.10 I noticed some of my screencasting applications are not working, for example screencasting tools like SimpleScreenRecorder and vokoscreen. (link)
Also I noticed features like screenshot from GIMP is not working…
pomsky
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How to install Kazam 1.5.3?
Months ago, I used to install Kazam 1.5.3 using these commands :
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kazam-team/unstable-series
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install kazam python3-cairo python3-xlib
Them main reason I want Kazam 1.5.3 exactly is…
SmootQ
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How can I record an OpenGL game in Ubuntu?
I would like to create a short clip of me playing Minecraft, an OpenGL game. The usual screencast recorders do not properly record OpenGL.
What kind of software is available for this purpose?
My experience with the software in the similar (but no…
Tamás Szelei
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How to change screencast duration in GNOME 3 screen recorder?
I want to change the length of my screencast recorded with the GNOME 3 Screen Recorder from the default 30 seconds to 30 minutes. How do I do that?
user5245
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Screen sharing under wayland
Has anyone got screensharing working under wayland using pipewire?
As far as I can tell, it should be possible to share the screen from Chrome / Chromium after installing the pipewire package and adding your user to the audio and video groups. …
Tom
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Connect to wireless display in Ubuntu 20.04
I was wondering if there's any progress in the WiDi compatibility for Ubuntu/Linux. In particular, I have a Microsoft Display Adapter that I can connect via HDMI to my monitor, and I would like to show my laptop screen on this external monitor via…
valto
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Audio not working for Gnome Screencast Ctrl + Alt + Shift + R
I can do screencasts by pressing ctrl+alt+shift+r, but I get no sound when I view the videos, I've check my built in mic and headset, they both work on skype and such, I just can't record sound with the gnome built in screencasting. Also, when I…
Costa Michailidis
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How to remotely display my Android on my PC?
There is a thing which is called miracast, it can mirror the display of the Android phone to another monitor, but my screen doesn't have this function, am I possible to do it in Ubuntu?
JulianLai
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How do I cast my Android screen to my Ubuntu HTPC?
I have an Android phone running 5.0 (CM12) that has "cast screen" on the quick settings page, but no devices are listed. I don't own a Chromecast, but I have an Ubuntu HTPC running 14.04 and Kodi.
What can I do to make the HTPC a receiver and show…
Bo Dang Ren
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