EasyScreenCast simplifies the use of the video recording function integrated in gnome shell, allows quickly to change the various settings of the desktop recording. Copyright (C) 2013-16 Borsato Ivano.
Requirements
- Gnome Shell 3.12+ [ 3.16+ audio/webcam support ]
- Gstreamer 1.x [ common function/webcam support ]
- gst plugins ugly [ x264 support ]
- gst plugins base [ common function/theora support ]
- gst plugins good [ mp4/mkv/webm/vp8/vp9 support ]
Gstreamer patterns pipeline
License Info
EasyScreenCast is free software distributed under the GNU GPL. All files are under GPL v3. read COPYING for more infomation about license.
How to install
there are several methods:
1-from gnome extension site, just go on this page and click/touch on the button ON, that's all.
2-from github repo, if you want the most up-to-date version, just do these simple steps
git clone https://github.com/EasyScreenCast/EasyScreenCast.git
cd EasyScreenCast
make
make install
How to view the logs
You must enable the verbose logs in options window and after that you can find the logs by typing this on terminal:
journalctl --since=today --no-pager --output=cat, grep ESC
journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell --since=today --no-pager --output=cat
to open the option windows from terminal try that on terminal:
gnome-shell-extension-prefs EasyScreenCast@iacopodeenosee.gmail.com
Translation
If you want to help with translations, just follow these simple step:
1 - Create a new folders for the translations(if NOT exist), where $lang is a code language [https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Usual-Language-Codes.html#Usual-Language-Codes]
mkdir -p locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES
2 - Translate the string with the program Poedit by using a .pot files (locale/messages.pot)
3 - Save these files in the same directory of .pot files, use the code language for the name of them (locale/$lang.po)
4 - Convert in binary these .po files, where $lang is a code language, with that command:
msgfmt locale/$lang.po -o locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/EasyScreenCast@iacopodeenosee.gmail.com.mo
Converting to GIF
There are a wide variety of video editors that should be able to convert
the screencasts to GIFs. An easy way to convert a file using the command
line is:
ffmpeg -i _filepath -pix_fmt rgb24 _dirpath/_filename.gif
For more information see for example: