Kubuntu needs a desktop recording tool on the DVD

[James Cain]

For 12.10 Kubuntu needs a screen recording program. We would like the community to make more videos showcasing Kubuntu for distribution on Youtube, Vimeo, etc. however, without good command-line skills with FFMPeg, this is not possible. Here's why:

a) Only Qt/KDE application in the repositories is RecordItNow, which as of Kubuntu 12.04 I could not get to work
b) Only other option is RecordMyDesktop, which is a GTK app
c) Both of these, assuming one can get them to work, output video in .ogv format. This is a format that KDE's video editor, KDEnlive, can not even open!

This means that even a well-intentioned community member who wanted t omake a video screencast of something cool on their Kubuntu system has no inherit way to do so.

Proposed solution would be to package / test FDesktopRecorder, a highly-ranked KDE desktop recorder found on opendesktop.org: http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/FDesktopRecorder?content=147844

There are packages for other distros, but no .deb files. I can not package, but as I need a tool for screencasts I would gladly test if someone could package. I would also be doing more Kubuntu videos :)

Other options / ideas welcome but I strongly feel this needs to be addressed ASAP.

[J Cord (j7cord)]

Please if I may say this is ie Kubuntu 12.10 possibly the best out of the box desktop O.S. I have had the pleasure to use.
I also would like to post a video of the release to youtube, especially for new people to Linux, A very good desktop recorder would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for considering these requests. Thank you also for such a fantastic , embracing, classy and smooth distribution.

Best Wishes to Kubuntu Devs and Community.

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Kubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Kubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Kubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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