SimpleScreenRecorder 0.3.2 released, record desktop sessions, programs and games on Linux Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Arch Linux, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora and openSUSE

SimpleScreenRecorder 0.3.2 released, you can install on Linux Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Arch Linux, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora and openSUSE

SimpleScreenRecorder is a simple, free and open source software project that delivers a graphical application for recording programs and games under a GNU/Linux operating system. It can be considered as an alternative to Fraps, a Windows program that lets users record gaming sessions or full screen, 3D applications.

As its name suggests, SimpleScreenRecorder aims to be as simple and easy-to-use as possible, but with the time, it received a wide range of features that transformed it into a powerful Linux desktop screen recorder utility. It is much faster than the FFmpeg/avconv combination or VLC.

SimpleScreenRecorder 0.3.2 Features :

• Graphical user interface (Qt-based).
  
• Faster than VLC and ffmpeg/avconv.
  
• Records the entire screen or part of it, or records OpenGL applications directly (similar to Fraps on Windows).
  
• Synchronizes audio and video properly (a common issue with VLC and ffmpeg/avconv).
  
• Reduces the video frame rate if your computer is too slow (rather than using up all your RAM like VLC does).
  
• 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.
  
• Pause and resume recording at any time (either by clicking a button or by pressing a hotkey).
  
• Shows statistics during recording (file size, bit rate, total recording time, actual frame rate, ...).
  
• Can show a preview during recording, so you don't waste time recording something only to figure out afterwards that some setting was wrong.
  
• Uses libav/ffmpeg libraries for encoding, so it supports many different codecs and file formats (adding more is trivial).
  
• Can also do live streaming (experimental).
  
• Sensible default settings: no need to change anything if you don't want to.
  
• Tooltips for almost everything: no need to read the documentation to find out what something does.
  

Looking under the hood of SimpleScreenRecorder, we can notice that the program has been written entirely in the C++ programming language and uses the cross-platform Qt GUI toolkit for its graphical user interface. Runtime dependencies include ffmpeg or libav (libavcodec, libswscale, libavutil, libavformat), libX11, libXext, libGL, libXfixes, libGLU, libXi, and ALSA.

Among the officially supported distributions of Linux, we can mention Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora and openSUSE. The program is also distributed as a source tarball, so you will be able to easily deploy it on any other GNU/Linux operating system as long as the aforementioned requirements are met. Supported architectures include 32-bit and 64-bit.

SimpleScreenRecorder 0.3.2 on Ubuntu

Because it is available via PPA, installing Simple Screen Recorder 0.3.2 on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid vervet, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 17, Linux Mint 17.1 and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the simplescreenrecorder package. open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder

For recording openGL applications, the simplescreenrecorder-lib library is required, but it is also available via the PPA. While it installs automatically on 32 bit systems, for enabling the recording of 32 bit apps on 64 bit systems, you have to do the following, after the simplescreenrecorder has been successfully installed:

sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder-lib:i386

Optional, to remove simple screen recorder, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo apt-get remove simplescreenrecorder

For install SimpleScreenRecorder 0.3.2 on Debian, Gentoo, Fedora and openSUSE you can follow this page.