Microphone to use with recordmydesktop?

[leonardevens]

I've been watching some tutorials, which, I am told, were made with recordmydesktop. It looks as if it would be useful, but I don't have a microphone.

I am running Fedora 14 on a Dell Precision workstation. I was able to install recordmydesktop without difficulty. Does anyone have any microphones to recomened?

I am happy to connect it to the mic port in back or to use a USB microphone. What might be the advantages and disadvantages of each. Which would be easiest to setup on my machine?

[KKJensen]

Where did you find these tutorials? I'd like to watch some.

Thanks in advance!

[synic]

Originally Posted by KKJensen

Where did you find these tutorials? I'd like to watch some.

Thanks in advance!

2nd that. Link please??? I am looking into this as well.

[KKJensen]

I've moved on to another solution using ffmpeg which is working very well. You can record either sound from a program or your mic.

I'm using this for now, just copy paste this to your commandline.

ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -f x11grab -r 30 -s 1024x768 -i :0.0 -acodec pcm_s16le -vcodec libx264 -vpre lossless_ultrafast -threads 0 output.mkv

It's the x11grab part that gets your screen. There's also parameters in there for stereo/mono, bitrates, screen sizes, etc etc. It records in whatever file tyes that ffmpeg supports with the -o parameter.

Searching for ffmpeg x11grab will bring up youtube videos of examples and explanations.

Good luck!