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Record screen to animated GIF on Linux (alternative to LICEcap)
You could take a look at Peek too.
Peek is a simple tool that lets you record a section of your screen and save it as an animated GIF image.
Peek screenshot:
Peek recording:
Peek requires FFmpeg + ...
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Screen capture tool with uploading to a server for Ubuntu?
You might wish to take a look at Shutter – which offers this and more:
Shutter upload screenshots (click images for larger variants)
As the screenshots show, Shutter allows you uploading to many ...
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Screen recording tool that records both Speaker o/p as well as mic input
My Experience is:
1st Place: as Sterex suggested, Open Broadcast Studio
OBS really provides a whole lot of flexibility for creating complex layouts which you can change on the fly while recording.
I ...
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Game capture for Linux
I would recommend Open Broadcaster Software.
It has support for most Linux distros and it has a set dos option. It does take a while to set it up though to get good quality recordings.
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Screen-recording GIF 'video' tool for Mac OS X
ScreenToGif
General
Free & Source code available
Simple to use
Portable
9 MB small
No limitations such as time or file size limit
Features
Record your screen and save directly to a gif looped ...
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Game capture for Linux
You can use recordMyDesktop:
can record full screen
free
set FPS
can record microphone and game audio
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Free screen recorder with no watermark/limit
ShareX is what I am using at work for screnshots / screen recording.
Pros
It's open source
Capture in png / mp4
I never met any limitation
Cons
Offers a lot of options (editors, uploaders, ...), ...
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A free, lightweight but quality video capture software for Windows?
Please see the authors update at the bottom
Spotlight Recorder Utility
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2009.03.utilityspotlight2.aspx
I realize this is an older questions - but I have had ...
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Screen and audio capture software
Any program (Windows Sound Recorder, Sound booth, audacity etc) that records audio can record sound from windows, you just need to know how to set windows up.
You are not really looking for another ...
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Free screen recorder with no watermark/limit
I recommend ScreenToGif. While it has some downsides it's a free tool which is extremely easy to use.
Pros:
It's free without a watermark
Easy to install and use
It now can capture the whole screen ...
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Simple screen recorder
There is CamStudio, which has been around for a while and probably will not be going anywhere:
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-...
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Screen capture software for streaming video
Open Broadcaster Software
is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
Hopefully the high performance
GPU-based game capture for high performance game streaming.
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Windows Software to constantly record the last X minutes of desktop activity
I had pretty much the same requirements. Have a software who can run on not that powerful of a system and record last X minutes of my activity and save on hotkey pressed.
After searching a lot I found ...
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Free screen capture software for recording Minecraft videos
Take a look at Open Broadcaster Software
From their website:
High performance real time video/audio capturing and mixing, with unlimited scenes you can switch between seamlessly via custom
...
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Is there a screen recording software that is simple and creates low file sizes?
I recommend OBS Studio. While it is probably used mainly for streaming, it can also record the screen to disk.
For your requirements:
it works on Windows (Windows 8 or higher). I use it on Windows.
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Screen-recording GIF 'video' tool for Mac OS X
I recommend Kap, an open-source screen recorder built with "web technology."
It seems it only supports macOS as of now, but you might be able to add Windows support by a simple PR, as it is using JS.
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Long screencast software
To do this I would recommend using Open Broadcaster Software. To make open broadcaster software record at 60 fps it requires a bit of tweaking but once you get it working install the plugin live split ...
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Record screen section as animated GIF
I know this is an old question, but..
Peek is a little open source program designed for doing exactly this. It has packages in most major linux distributions, though I don't know about OS X support.
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What is a screen recorder with mouse movement and can save the recording as video?
For Windows now I using ShareX. Free Open Source screenshot and screencast recording App.
It also contain simple image editind and annotation and automatic uploader to image hosting, but I not using ...
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Screen capture tool showing clicks and keypresses
I'd be inclinded to use an independent app to render which key you are pressing on-screen, then just screen capture both applications.
So on Windows, maybe one of these existing answers will suit you?...
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Screen capture tool with uploading to a server for Ubuntu?
I made a client like that for both Windows and Linux. It is very minimalist (but does what it is designed for) and unfortunately doesn't support video uploads.
You can download the binaries here: ...
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Screen recording tool that records both Speaker o/p as well as mic input
Open Broadcast Studio is pretty good. And it's a freeware.
https://obsproject.com/
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Is there a tool to produce gif from screen recording for windows
ShareX is in my opinion the best tool to do this out there.
It will capture screenshots, video, GIFs upload them automatically to your favorite service and much more.
On top of that it's free and ...
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Software for making video lectures for Linux (switching to online teaching with the COVID-19 pandemic)
Yes, OBS Studio is your best option here, as it's very customizable.
OBS Studio here also.
Geogebra is a fantastic free option for the majority of mathmatical things. However, making graphs simply via ...
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Record screen to animated GIF on Linux (alternative to LICEcap)
I Haven't seen it mentioned here, so try Scrot.
It's part of my Ubuntu packages so should be in universe at the least without PPA's
I Have zero experience in using it, but I'll generally go with a ...
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Screen record and mouse tracking
In Linux, I'd use gtkRecordMyDesktop for the recordings. AFAIK it doesn't support logging of mouse location, etc. though.
However, the linux program cnee does log X11 events and data. It can even ...
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Simple screen recorder
The VLC video recording bug appears to have been fixed in the 2.2.5 nightly build. I have since tested it on several codecs and with default settings the file sizes are a lot smaller, and offers a lot ...
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Simple screen recorder
You can't beat FastStone Capture. I have already had a few of my answers recommending it accepted for questions regarding snapshots, but it can also capture video, which is what you want.
It is ...
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