kazam is awesome tool for recording screencast from your linux box .
Kazam is a simple screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format.
Kazam is a simple screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format.
kazam is available in ubuntu 12.04 universe repositories section under videos
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</p>or you can manually add ppa and install
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kazam-team/stable-series<br /> sudo apt-get update<br /> sudo apt-get install kazam
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kazam use gstreamer as backend so you can record in webem or mp4 format with pulseaudio sound format
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Project Link : https://launchpad.net/kazam
kazam is also work with Linux mint and other Ubuntu based distributions
