recordmydesktop – audio not in sync

Nice application!

Normally one could use the GUI (gtk-recordMyDesktop) but I had a small problem: audio and video was not in sync. I worked around via specifying my headset on the command line tool directly via

 -device plughw:0,0

Thats it!

recordmydesktop --width 800 --height 640 --v_quality 20 --s_quality 10 --delay 3 --fps 10 --overwrite --device plughw:0,0 -o timefinder-v4-screencast.ogv

If this does not work for you look here, here, here or try to disable compiz via System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Visual Effects

and include –no-wm-check

Or use the command where I got the best results:


recordmydesktop --width 1024 --height 800 --v_bitrate 2000000 --s_quality 10 --delay 1 --fps 20
--overwrite --device plughw:0,0 --no-wm-check --buffer-size 65538 --freq 48000 --quick-subsampling
--on-the-fly-encoding -o timefinder-v4-screencast.ogv

To convert this into a youtube video do:

mencoder -idx timefinder-v4-screencast.ogv -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o timefinder-v4-screencast.avi

ffmpeg -i timefinder-v4-screencast.ogv output.mpg

To cut sth. from the video you can do:

ffmpeg -vcodec copy -i timefinder-v4-screencast.ogv -ss -00:00:10 -t 00:07:11 output.ogv

On blip.tv you don’t need this! Simply upload!

4 thoughts on “recordmydesktop – audio not in sync”

when will we see all that automated, is there anyone who still have the time for all the coding

Actually all is fine (without any other setup) if you call recordmydesktop via

recordmydesktop –width 1024 -height 800 –v_bitrate 2000000 –s_quality 10 –delay 1 –fps 20 –overwrite -device plughw:0,0 –no-wm-check –buffer-size 65538 –freq 48000 –quick-subsampling –on-the-fly-encoding -o timefinder-v4-screencast.ogv

After this simply upload to blip.tv. Nothing more was necessary for me 🙂

Look here: http://blip.tv/file/2889492 which was easily embedable here: http://timefinder.sourceforge.net/documentation.html