{"id":2703,"date":"2013-12-29T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T11:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2013-12-29T11:35:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T11:35:38","slug":"install-simple-screen-recorder-ubuntu-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/install-simple-screen-recorder-ubuntu-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Simple Screen Recorder in Ubuntu via PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/record-button.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2704\" alt=\"simple screen recorder ubuntu\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/record-button.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/record-button.jpg 240w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/record-button-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>SimpleScreenRecorder<\/b> is a Linux program to record programs and games. It aims to be powerful and really simple to use. It&#8217;s &#8216;simple&#8217; in the sense that it&#8217;s easier to use than ffmpeg\/avconv or VLC, because it has a straightforward user interface.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/simple-screen-recorder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2705\" alt=\"simple screen recorder Ubuntu\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/simple-screen-recorder-276x300.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/simple-screen-recorder-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/simple-screen-recorder.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This recorder has below features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Graphical user interface (Qt-based).<\/li>\n<li>Faster than VLC and ffmpeg\/avconv.<\/li>\n<li>Records the entire screen or part of it, or records OpenGL applications directly (similar to Fraps on Windows).<\/li>\n<li>Synchronizes audio and video properly (a common issue with VLC and ffmpeg\/avconv).<\/li>\n<li>Reduces the video frame rate if your computer is too slow (rather than using up all your RAM like VLC does).<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Pause and resume recording at any time (either by clicking a button or by pressing a hotkey).<\/li>\n<li>Shows statistics during recording (file size, bit rate, total recording time, actual frame rate, &#8230;).<\/li>\n<li>Can show a preview during recording, so you don&#8217;t waste time recording something only to figure out afterwards that some setting was wrong.<\/li>\n<li>Uses libav\/ffmpeg libraries for encoding, so it supports many different codecs and file formats (adding more is trivial).<\/li>\n<li>Can also do\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maartenbaert.be\/simplescreenrecorder\/live-streaming\/\" target=\"_blank\">live streaming<\/a>\u00a0(experimental).<\/li>\n<li>Sensible default settings: no need to change anything if you don&#8217;t want to.<\/li>\n<li>Tooltips for almost everything: no need to read the documentation to find out what something does.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SimpleScreenRecorder demo: recording Valve&#039;s Portal on Linux\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HIhyc0TFKtA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Install SimpleScreenRecorder Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n<p>The developer has created a PPA for Ubuntu and Linux Mint users. Currently supports Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Mint 13\/14\/15\/16.<\/p>\n<p>To install it, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert\/simplescreenrecorder\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\nsudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder<\/pre>\n<p># if you want to record 32-bit OpenGL applications on a 64-bit system:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder-lib:i386<\/pre>\n<p>For Arch Linux, Gentoo, OpenSUSE and other Linux packages, refer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maartenbaert.be\/simplescreenrecorder\/\" title=\"SimpleScreenRecorder Homepage\" target=\"_blank\">the app homepage<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SimpleScreenRecorder is a Linux program to record programs and games. It aims to be powerful and really simple to use. It&#8217;s &#8216;simple&#8217; in the sense that it&#8217;s easier to use than ffmpeg\/avconv or VLC, because it has a straightforward user interface. This recorder has below features: Graphical user interface (Qt-based). Faster than VLC and ffmpeg\/avconv. 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