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[Mushroo]

Hope I am asking in the correct forum.

Can any of you Linux users suggest the best way to make CaptnDuck-style videos of my dwarf fortress play, with my narration captured through the microphone, for posting on Youtube? I've tried kazam (but it gets the aspect ratio wrong, the videos are squished horizontally) and RecordItNow (but the frame rate is terrible, it's like a slideshow). I'm running the latest Linux Mint 14 64-bit with Nvidia graphics.

Alternately, if I can't get it working in Linux, what are people using in Windows these days?

Thanks!

[HavingPhun]

I have no experience in linux. Except for the one time I installed Ubuntu on another partition and never used it. But I know that on windows fraps will not work with df. But there is a built in recorder for the game. If I remember correctly it shows numbers and letters that represent what you are pressing off to the side. I would either wait for someone who can help with linux or search something like: "Best free recorders for linux". Sorry that I couldn't really help.

[Mushroo]

I tweaked the settings on kazam and it seems to work pretty well now. It was choking on fullscreen but can handle windowed mode with only occasional crashes. If I figure out some optimal settings I will post here.

[Mushroo]

The secret is to use a compositing windows manager (I just had to switch this setting on in Xfce under Settings->Windows Manager Tweaks) and install the newer version of Kazam from the PPA.

[calrogman]

Microphone: http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#Video-and-Audio-grabbing
Screen: http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#X11-grabbing
Sound loopback (to record game audio): https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=765075#p765075

Good luck.

[Mushroo]

^ Awesome, will be very helpful if I don't get good results from kazam.