{"id":1729,"date":"2013-09-25T08:42:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T08:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2013-09-25T08:42:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T08:42:15","slug":"record-animated-gif-screencasts-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/record-animated-gif-screencasts-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Record Animated GIF Screencasts in Ubuntu 13.10\/13.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to make screencasts as animated GIFs on Ubuntu? Well, byzanz is the best choice I ever found.<\/p>\n<p>Byzanz is a small and efficient screencast creator. It records your desktop session or parts of it to an animated GIF, OGG Theora or Flash. <\/p>\n<p>Below is an animated GIF created by byzanz:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/output.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/output.gif\" alt=\"animated gif \" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1730\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is said that byzanz does not screencast Unity-3D. However, I&#8217;ve been using it in Unity for a period of time since I was in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal. <\/p>\n<p><b>To install byzanz in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10,<\/b> press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands one by one:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom\/byzanz\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install byzanz<\/pre>\n<p>This is an example I did just now:<\/p>\n<pre>byzanz-record --duration=15 --x=0 --y=0 --width=500 --height=350 output.gif<\/pre>\n<p>For more options, run:<\/p>\n<pre>man byzanz-record<\/pre>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to make screencasts as animated GIFs on Ubuntu? Well, byzanz is the best choice I ever found. Byzanz is a small and efficient screencast creator. It records your desktop session or parts of it to an animated GIF, OGG Theora or Flash. Below is an animated GIF created by byzanz: It is said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[638,637],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-byzanz","tag-record-animated-gif"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}