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==RecordMyDesktop steps==

I found this page [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Screencast Activity Screencast!] Must research and test!
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# Get Sugar installed and internet connection working
# Go to terminal (can be found in list of activities)
# Go to root by typing 
  <code>su</code>
You are looking for [http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php RecordMyDesktop]. Read the very old [http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/manpage.php help pages]. They'll give you some clues to the operation of RecordMyDesktop(RMD) though I must say that after playing with RMD on Sugar I much prefer RMD on Ubuntu.

#Type: 
 <code>yum install recordmydesktop</code> 
RecordMyDesktop is command line only. Use GTK below for the GUI.
 <code>yum install gtk-recordmydesktop</code>
or this one written in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29 Python] WHICH should be more stable on Sugar as Sugar is written in Python... though amazingly qt-recordmydesktop asked for 27M of space where gtk-recordmydesktop only asked for a few 100K! Bemasc at the IRC rightly pointed out that QT is a big app and that there are huge buffering considerations for using RMD in general.
 <code>yum install qt-recordMyDesktop</code>

==GStreamer==
Bemasc found this. Test it on the command line. Let us know.
 <Code>gst-launch ximagesrc ! video/x-raw-rgb,framerate=5/1 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! theoraenc ! oggmux ! filesink location=desktop.ogg
</code>

==Why make screencasts?==
Video, when done properly, can explain a lot more than text. And video can overcome some of the language barriers by SHOWING people what to do and their expected outcomes.

==Possible errors you may encounter with RecordMyDesktop==
<nowiki>[root@localhost liveuser]# gtk-recordMyDesktop 

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/recordMyDesktop/rmdMonitor.py:10: DeprecationWarning: The  popen2 module is deprecated.  Use the subprocess module.
  import popen2
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/recordMyDesktop/rmdSimple.py:223: DeprecationWarning: os.popen3 is deprecated.  Use the subprocess module.
  (stdin,stdout,stderr)=os.popen3(xwininfo_com,'t')
The program 'gtk-recordMyDesktop' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 3927 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
</nowiki>
* No known workaround for this yet.