GTK-RecordMyDesktop and Ubuntu 10.04

Been having problems with GTK-RecordMyDesktop since upgrading. Found the cause of the problem and the fix on ubuntuforums.org courtesy of DodgeV83:

1. Type this in a terminal - "sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list" and Add the following lines:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic multiverse

2. Open Synaptic and reload the files.

3. Do a search for libtheora, highlight the package "libtheora-bin" and select Package - Force Version -Karmic. Do the same for package "libtheora0" and hit Apply.

4. Again highlight those two packages and select Package -- Lock Version.

This will fix the problems until recordmydesktop is fixed.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Theora
• Codec
• Ubuntu
• 10.04
• gtk-recordmydesktop
• problem
• how-to

[mousegeek]

It worked! Thank you, thank you :) I was getting rather frustrated because everything works just fine with Linux Mint 8 but I also have Ubuntu 10.4 and I couldn't understand why the Ubuntu captures were going blurry when I uploaded them to YouTube. I thought it was down to a whole load of codecs I'd installed - I even did a reinstall to try and solve the problem (didn't work obviously :) Once again many thanks for that :)

[brtidwell55]

@mousegeek 

[J0RDSKI]

How did you get the temperature and other things in your top right?

[brtidwell55]

@J0RDSKI Its called Screenlets. Its in the repositories

[TheShowThatSUX]

Can you not just convert it to an AVI using a different codec in Ubuntu?

[brtidwell55]

@TheShowThatSUX Tried that. As I understand it, the problem is with the new Theora codec that is the default in Ubuntu 10.04. Using xvidcap and encoding straight to mpeg is hit or miss on my system.

[msaudiCSE]

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaaanks

[LinuxRaymaker]

Thank you.

[chevybow67]

Thanks alot!! this really helped me, i couldnt find this anywere else Thank You :)

[ChristianWebResource]

Thanks for sharing! I've been trying all the different re-encoding suggestions and none of them produced a decent quality result. This is the ticket!

[JayKillaSwaggOn]

Everytime i use record my desktop

Then post it on youtube it always shows up just a green video with no image

NOTHING :l

Help?

[myspacecommassergio]

hey bro i put u in my test video w/ a link in my annotations to your page to redirect people here. You were a great help. Peace. =]

[myspacecommassergio]

LMFAOOOOOOOOO ahahahahhahaha i have the same problem thanks for helping im going to try another test run. Heres my error (it views fine in ubuntu video players once youtube transcodes it it messes up) we have the same theme installed btw. Kinda ironic. :) watch?v=bgesiHRTXxk

[warcraftpeon]

at first it seems that the error is with the new version of libtheora (as reverting to an older version fixes the problem). on further review, it seems that the bug is with recordmydesktop and always has been. recordmydesktop is giving odd instructions to the codec (from redhat bugzilla: the encoder must use the highest configurable precision..yet that it can't use more than 45kbit/sec.) the old libtheora would ignore this request, the new does not resulting in odd video ouput.

[supermario641996]

it wont let me force version do i need to become root

[drmams]

Thanks! exactly my problem! You're a savior