Thread: another compatibility problem

I'm trying to find a recorder, like HyperCam, that will work in Ubuntu.
I can get HyperCam to record, but it's really buggy and it takes shitty video, because I can't select a certain space to record, i have to record my whole desktop (bad compatibility with WINE).
So does anybody know of a video recorder that i can use with Ubuntu?

EDIT: Nevermind, I just now thought to check the repositories, and I think I found a program that will work.

EDIT again: FUCK. Didn't work after all. I'm trying to record a video of me doing something on a DS game. I've loaded a save on the only DS emulator that I know how to do that with, no$gba, and tried to record it with "gtk-recordmydesktop" but it says some bullshit about my soundcard not being configured. It seems to be a problem with WINE though, because if the emulator isn't running it doesn't give me that bullshit error. If I could figure out how to load save files into DesmuME (DS emulator for Linux) then I could get the recording.

(If all else fails, I'll probably just ask my stepmom if I can use her camera to shoot the video from my DS screen, but it's like 10 minutes long and I have shaky hands)

sounds like wine isn't setup correctly to work with pulseaudio
and is dominating the sound card

Run the emulator with

Code:

padsp wine /path/to/emulator

this will route the sound through pulse

OSS sends sound directly to the soundcard hardware, so only one sound source can be active per sound card
padsp redirects sound through pulse

Proper solution is to change the options in winecfg, and move sound processing over to ALSA (which pulse supports natively), instead of OSS

Originally Posted by Ynot

sounds like wine isn't setup correctly to work with pulseaudio
and is dominating the sound card

Run the emulator with

Code:

padsp wine /path/to/emulator

this will route the sound through pulse

OSS sends sound directly to the soundcard hardware, so only one sound source can be active per sound card
padsp redirects sound through pulse

Proper solution is to change the options in winecfg, and move sound processing over to ALSA (which pulse supports natively), instead of OSS

In winecfg sound is already in ALSA.

EDIT: I tried running the emulator with padsp wine and it's still giving me the sound card error

Ok, then we have a stubborn Windows program that doesn't follow the standard WinAPI
(£10 says same problems under native windows, all other sound sources would be cut-off when launching the program)

Open winecfg with OSS redirection

Code:

padsp winecfg

and change the Audio to use OSS

Close winecfg
then launch emulator with

Code:

padsp wine /path/to/emulator

gtk-RecordMyDesktop is a pretty good program, although it encodes it in Ogg Vorbis, so you might want to encode it to something else when it's done.

Still getting the error.

Code:

Cannot Open/Configure Sound Card.

Originally Posted by Demon Parasite

gtk-RecordMyDesktop is a pretty good program, although it encodes it in Ogg Vorbis, so you might want to encode it to something else when it's done.

Any particular program you suggest I do it with?

Originally Posted by Fableflame

Still getting the error.

Code:

Cannot Open/Configure Sound Card.

Well, use a native DS emulator

The emulator wants to directly control the soundcard, yet you're trying to shoehorn it through 3 levels of redirection

Use a native emulation program