How To Install Simple Screen Recorder in Ubuntu & Other Ubuntu distros

How To Install Simple Screen Recorder in Ubuntu & Other Ubuntu distros

SimpleScreenRecorder is desktop recorder tool to record games or programs on Linux desktop, it is developed by Maarten Baert and his aim was to develop a program that could fulfill all desktop recorder needs. The program isn't really simple as its name shows off, it has rich features but with straightforward QT-based user interface. This program supports X11 and OpenGL, also support many codecs and file formats.

It allows user to record entire screen (Multi Monitor Support) or part of the screen, or record specific OpenGL application. Recording can be paused/resumed at anytime. It has ability to keep video and audio synchronized, on slower PC it can be done by reducing frames and it has support for multi-threading. For performance improvement and other features see this link.

How To Install: Open the terminal and enter the command

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

If you are on 64bit OS and want to record 32bit OpenGL applications then enter this command in terminal:

sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder-lib:i386