Ubuntu – How to record screen video and audio. Install SimpleScreenRecorder on Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 14.04. Record screen on Linux Ubuntu Systems. SimpleScreenRecorder is a Linux program that have been created to record screen, programs and games. The SimpleScreenRecorder supports X11 and OpenGL and has a Qt-based GUI. The application can be used to the entire screen or part of it. The best part, the screen recording can be paused and resumed at any time.
Features
- Graphical user interface (Qt-based).
- Faster than VLC and ffmpeg/avconv.
- Records the entire screen or part of it, or records OpenGL applications directly (similar to Fraps on Windows).
- Synchronizes audio and video properly (a common issue with VLC and ffmpeg/avconv).
- Reduces the video frame rate if your computer is too slow (rather than using up all your RAM like VLC does).
- Fully multithreaded: small delays in any of the components will never block the other components, resulting is smoother video and better performance on computers with multiple processors.
- Pause and resume recording at any time (either by clicking a button or by pressing a hotkey).
- Shows statistics during recording (file size, bit rate, total recording time, actual frame rate, …).
- Can show a preview during recording, so you don’t waste time recording something only to figure out afterwards that some setting was wrong.
- Uses libav/ffmpeg libraries for encoding, so it supports many different codecs and file formats (adding more is trivial).
- Can also do live streaming (experimental).
- Sensible default settings: no need to change anything if you don’t want to.
- Tooltips for almost everything: no need to read the documentation to find out what something does.
Install SimpleScreenRecorder on Ubuntu
Open Terminal and run the following commands to install SimpleScreenRecorder on Ubuntu Systems:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder
Once installed, the app can be opened via Ubuntu Dash.
If you aren’t happy and wish to uninstall SimpleScreenRecorder from Ubuntu Systems, run the command:
$ sudo apt-get remove simplescreenrecorder