Re: recordmydesktop doesn't work with sound.

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:50:10PM +0200, Catonano wrote:
> 2016-07-21 22:21 GMT+02:00 Thompson, David <dthompson2@worcester.edu>:
> 
> > Hi Dmitry,
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Dmitry Nikolaev <cameltheman@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi. I wanted to make a screencast about GuixSD, but recordmydesktop
> > couldn't
> > > record sound.
> >
> > I don't know the answer to your question, unfortunately, but I wanted
> > to recommend another tool as a workaround for now: Open Broadcaster
> > Software.  Install with 'guix package -i obs'.  I like it quite a bit.
> >
> > - Dave
> >
> >
> I second David's suggestion. Even if it worked correctly, RecordMyDesktop
> is really unpleasant to use.
> 
> When you record something, it needs to "process" your content for a very
> long time and such process runs on a single core only
> 
> If that goes awry for any reason, you'll have to record again from scratch
> 
> Further, last time I used it, it brutally cut the audio of my footage for
> no apparent reason.
> 
> I'd recommend a tiny Gnome Shell extension called "EasyScreenCast" but I
> don't know how that would fare with GuixSD.
> 
> If this Open Broadcaster is already available, I'd give it a shot

$ guix package -A obs
obs 0.15.1  out gnu/packages/video.scm:1397:2

> 
> I'm looking forward to watch your screencast !

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