Category Archives: Linux

MiserWare Beta for Windows as well as Linux

By popey | Published: January 18, 2010
I previously blogged about MiserWare, a company making software to save money. Well previously you could only get the Linux version (which for me is great) but now they’ve extended the beta to Windows. They’ve also added an (unnecessary but fun) GUI to the Windows version. If you have any Windows machines (desktops as well [...]
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UDS Lucid Ends – Lucid Rocking Begins

By popey | Published: November 21, 2009
Rock on!
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Working Around blip.tv Video Conversion Failures

By popey | Published: September 7, 2009
One of the things that’s important to me for Ubuntu Screencasts is that they are accessible to people on non-Ubuntu platforms. That basically translates to Windows and OSX, but could also mean set top boxes, media players etc. One reason I like blip.tv is that they will take the Ogg Theora/Vorbis video I create in [...]
Also posted in Advocacy, Screencast, Ubuntu | 11 Comments

A Video Editor that Just Works

By popey | Published: September 2, 2009
After my troubles this morning and the subsequent helpful comments from readers, I’m pleased to say I’ve worked around the pausing issue with recordmydesktop. Here’s the command line I used to record a Window hard up against the top left of my display. recordmydesktop --width 1024 --height 768 --full-shots --fps 15 --channels 1 --device hw:2,0 [...]
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The Pain of Screencasting on Linux

By popey | Published: September 2, 2009
Some will say that screencasting on linux is easy. You just start recordmydesktop and stop when you’re finished. Upload the result to the internet and you’re done! Whilst this may be true in certain circumstances there are cases where this breaks. I encountered one today. My goal is to create a short (less than 10 [...]
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