HOWTO: Ubuntu Support for Audio in XVidCap
XVidCap is a very nice screen-capture program for Linux. I have been dabbling in it to capture video of my desktop.
Unfortunately, the binary offered by Ubuntu’s software distribution has audio disabled. I found a bug about that somewhere and added my two cents, then went and installed it manually. Then I had to reinstall it manually because the Ubuntu version had been bumped and the “newer” version replaced my audio-supporting version.
Step 1: Remove Existing xvidcap
sudo aptitude remove xvidcap
Step 2: Install XVidCap from SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xvidcap/ — click “download now” and the rest is all point-and-click.
Step 3: Lock XVidCap Version
Ubuntu will be quietly bide its time until it can “upgrade” xvidcap to a version that doesn’t support Audio. Fortunately, you can tell it not to do that!
Open: System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager
Search for “xvidcap”
Select the package, go to the Package menu and select “Lock Version”
(From what I can tell, sudo aptitude hold won’t actually prevent xvidcap from being “upgraded.”)
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DJ
Thank you! I’d been beating my head against the wall for hours with this!
Jonathan
My God… 3 full hours of desperation. I guess there is a buy in the version for karmic. There is just NO way to get audio out of that version of xvidcap.
ZucchiniMann
Thanks for the suggestion.
Something different in step 1 for me:
Following your link to SourceForge, I had to click on “view all files” and then select “xvidcap_1.1.7intrepid_i386.deb”
The rest of the process as already described.
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