Hey friends, I want to create a video tutorial. For that I need to video capture the screen in Ubuntu. Does anyone know any nice softwares for that?

Thanks in advance!!

Here is a nice video tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUIpq...0y9-HBPm6sg%3D

You probably have ffmpeg installed. You can try this command out:
and then Press q to stop.

This captures with sound. In place of "namethevideo.avi" you should type whatever you want to call your video. You might have to adjust the 1280x972 part to whatever size screen you have and the size of the area you want to capture. You should also make sure that you have pulse installed like the video by Jakejw93 that TobiSGD gave you the link for.

So, if the recommended software does not work well for you (I never could get Recordmydesktop to work on my system) try the ffmpeg command out.

My Gods man, you can't go telling folks to use the command line. This is the Ubuntu section.

Ooops! Sorry, I didn't look at the forum title.
But anyway, wouldn't this work for Ubuntu also?

recordmydesktop. You can record all your desktop or focus on a particular window. It also records audio. If you want to do voiceovers, you may need jack.

They are both in the repos.

Yes it should. Ubuntu just has a policy of avoiding CLI as much as possible as it will scare their users or potential users.

Might you share a link were I can find this policy?

Not really. The best place for this to be seen is the design team mailing list and the many blogs of Ubuntu design and development folks.

I no longer have any of those addresses and have no interest in ever seeing them again but they are not too difficult to find.

If you currently have links to some design and quality control teams for Ubuntu you may find some of them changing a good bit in the next dev cycle.

Having run off most of their experienced testers even the idiots that run Ubuntu have seen that they need to do something to stop the exit of these folks. They claim to want to repair the relations between testers and devs and so forth. No matter how I sound I actually hope they succeed. I just doubt they will.

Using extremely small groups they have been developing ideas of what folks want and don't want in their rather fixated attempt to fix "bug #1"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

This has led to the idea that the CLI is a major "fear" for the new user and indeed for most users of Linux. This seems to have congealed in the thinking sometime around 8.04. It took until 10.04 to start putting this into action. The removal of a number of CLI tools, most notably aptitude, from the default install is the result. The inclusion in Linux of so many tools is viewed as a bad thing, particularly if there is more than one that will do the same job.

The continued removal of GUI configuration tools is driven by the same type of "studies". These have "shown" that folks do not want to configure their OS.

Not being able to use the Linux kernel and remove the terminal at the same time causes some problems for the design folks as you may imagine. This does lead to some interesting exchanges in an attempt to hide the thing.

When you consider that for years now they have assured us on the testing forum that "devs do not pay any attention to the forums (UFs)", the official forums for Ubuntu and hosted on Ubuntu servers, you do have to wonder where they get their data on what users want or fear. I do not recommend asking that type of question on the UFs. This is not something they take kindly too.

Basically the result of bug number one is that they are attempting to make Linux into a cheap imitation of MS instead of working with the strengths of Linux to create an alternative. While this is a shame you can see that the CLI has to be, somehow, removed from view. The fact that most users of most major Linux distros have no need to ever even see the terminal seems to have been missed in the "studies".

Nope, wait, I don't get it for real.
I don't like, how Ubuntu works (therefore I am not recommending it to newbies).
I have used it and decided to abandon it. Partly because of the bugginess (is that even a word?), partly because Canonical's way was not my way.
But nonetheless , even if I don't like what has Ubuntu done to the image of Linux, I am fair. I don't like it, but claiming a policy that is only your opinion about a distro is in no way fair. If you make a claim, you should be able to back it up, even when it is "only" Ubuntu. Every distro has its place, although I know Slackware is the best.

No, the information is out there for anyone interested to hunt up. I do not have the bookmarks any more and am not going on a hunt.

Read all of Shuttleworths blogs. You will find it. I am not going to do it again.

Very clear statements that the CLI is just about (not quite) the biggest thing that stops people from using Linux.

The biggest thing is the "look" of Linux.

Then the poor bugger has a problem and the "elitist gurus" give out CLI commands and that is the end of that. This is the whole purpose of giving out CLI commands. To run noobs off. This is not my opinion, it is Marks and from what, I have read, just about everyone that works for Canonical.

They all write blogs. They don't like folks to even bring up the terminal.

Strangely enough you even here it on some of the blogs from Ubuntu devs. Have no idea how they put out a release without using a terminal but you would think that is exactly what they strive for by what they write.

The main reason that I am not hunting up these statements is because it caused veins to stick out on my forehead to read them.

As someone that started computing on MS when they were a CLI OS and seeing how difficult it has become to deal with when there is a problem since they did away with a usable terminal it really bothers me.

The stuff is out there for any one to find and read.

Thanks you guys!! Thanks for all the suggestions!