Add recordmydesktop example to screen recording post.
authorW. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:07:49 +0000 (10:07 -0400)
committerW. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:07:49 +0000 (10:07 -0400)
posts/Screen_recording.mdwn

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@@ -36,6 +36,18 @@ choice (see my [[video encoding|video]] post for hints.
 Note to Gentoo users: you'll need to compile ffmpeg with the `X` flag
 enabled to get the x11grab video input device.
 
+If you can't get ffmpeg to work, an example `recordmydesktop` command
+looks something like:
+
+    recordmydesktop --height 600 --width 880 --channels 1 --overwrite -o ramdisk/setup.ogv
+
+Some benefits recordmydesktop:
+
+* it uses `libxdamage` to only monitor regions of your window that
+  have changed (I'm not sure how ffmpeg's x11grab works).
+* it doesn't encode the video until after encoding finishes (although
+  you can encode on the fly if you like).
+
 [Xvidcap]: http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/
 [recordMyDesktop]: http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/
 [ffmpeg]: http://www.ffmpeg.org/