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Kazam Screencaster 1.0, a cool screencasting application for Linux, has been released today.
The Kazam Screencaster development has stopped a while back, but luckily a new developer has taken over the project and Kazam is updated frequently again. With the new 1.0 version, Kazam is finally GTK3 ready, but that's not all. Here are the changes since the previous Kazam version we wrote about (a long time ago, I know):
- It's finally possible to record arbitrary screen regions
- Support for two audio channels, with volume settings
- Output can be saved in WebM or Matroska
- Uses gstreamer instead of ffmpeg
- Countdown timer is now customizable
- Countdown window has now variable width
- Adjustable framerate
- Ability to turn off recording of mouse cursor
- Audio device selection is now done directly from PulseAudio. To record application sounds instead of microphone input you will have to select one of the monitor devices.
Even though it uses an Ubuntu AppIndicator, Kazam works in other desktop environments too, like GNOME Shell for instance (GNOME Shell has a built-in recording tool which works great, but it doesn't let you select an arbitrary screen region), where it falls back to a regular tray icon.
