Creating Screencasts on Ubuntu

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Install QEMU, avidemux, ffmpeg2theora, audacity on the host

$ sudo apt-get install qemu avidemux ffmpeg2theora audacity

Alternatively (preferably) qemu could be compiled from source. It's not nearly as hard as it sounds. There's a great guide to compiling QEMU on the Hampshire LUG wiki. Doing this means you can enable the (closed source) KQEMU module which dramatically improves performance of QEMU.


Install xvidcap
Home page: http://xvidcap.sf.net/

• Download the .deb

Visit download page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=81535&package_id=83441

Download xvidcap_1.1.4_i386.deb from mirror.

$ wget -c http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/xvidcap/xvidcap_1.1.4_i386.deb

• Install the .deb

$ sudo dpkg -i xvidcap_1.1.4_i386.deb

Run the XVIDCap Screen capture
to capture a screen cast. 


Run the XVIDCap from the Applications -> Sound & Video -> XVidCap Screen Capture


Next select the screen area you want to capture either by resizing the red rectangle appeared under the XVid Cap. or by clicking the "Select rectangular area to capture" button 


Then click on the  red circular button to start capture. and stop button to stop the capture.


The saved capture file will be a .mpeg file which will be saved in your home directory by default it will be "test-0000.mpeg"