Capturing screencasts with SimpleScreenRecorder

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is even better. That's why the trend for developers to explain how their apps work with video demonstrations has exploded in the past few years. YouTube and other websites allow distribution of such videos with minimal effort. These desktop presentations, or screencasts, can help users master many tricky situations.

Suppose you have discovered a particularly clever function in LibreOffice; you can share it with your friends and colleagues as a screencast. If you want to put a video presentation online, you can record it with an audio track and make it into a screencast. Many screencast programs even provide camera support and let you create "videos within videos" for your presentation.

Linux already has several tools for creating screencasts that you can use without spending a single dollar. The SimpleScreenRecorder (SSR) program from Maarten Baert [1] is a perfect example (see the "Installing SSR" box). In a jiffy, you can produce attractive screencasts without missing any of the features available in commercial alternatives.

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