Comment 7 for bug 1244306

Just to be clear (because I got confused), the given PPA is *not* a PPA that *just* contains a patched version of Kazam, it's actually another project (I mean SimpleScreenRecorder) and as far as I am concerned it serves my purpose completely (recording a screencast).
I would even say it is better than Kazam, but I think the point about Kazam is that it was trying (as much as possibile) to reduce the number of options, while SimpleScreenRecorder seems to let go of the options restriction and give more of these (but they're documented), but it's definitely not overcomplicated.
It would be great to have it included in the default Ubuntu packages list.

Regarding this bug, I had the issue as well, and as far as I understand, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/x264/+bug/1241772 is effectively the right explanation for this issue. Kazam's developer being apparently not so active maintaining it at the moment (see blog linked from the main Launchpad page), SimpleScreenRecorder is the only nice solution I can see under Ubuntu 13.10.