Tibesti: Screencasts the Easy Way

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Thanks to Tibesti, creating screencasts doesn't have to be a chore. This tiny utility lets you record desktop activity with a minimum of effort. Installing Tibesti on Ubuntu is a simple three-command affair:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ackondro/tibesti sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tibesti
Tibesti is designed to be as straightforward in use as possible. The main window provides access to the most important settings, including output format, quality, and recording mode. In addition to OGG, Tibesti supports the WebM, AVI, and H.264 formats, and the utility can capture both video and audio.
The Options window lets you configure the tool's options. Here you can enable or disable audio recording, separate audio and video streams, and enable cursor recoding. Once Tibesti is configured, recording a screencast is as easy as hitting the Start Recording button. When you are finished recording, press Stop Recording, save the screencast, and you are done. It couldn't be easier than that.
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Autotools?
Builddep, yes. Dep? No.
Dependencies!!!
Reading package lists... Done
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The following extra packages will be installed:
autoconf automake autotools-dev couchdb-bin desktopcouch erlang-base erlang-crypto erlang-inets
erlang-mnesia erlang-public-key erlang-runtime-tools erlang-ssl erlang-syntax-tools
erlang-xmerl gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
intltool libsctp1 lksctp-tools m4 python-avahi python-couchdb python-desktopcouch
python-desktopcouch-records python-distutils-extra python-gnomekeyring python-openssl
python-pam python-serial python-twisted-bin python-twisted-core zeitgeist-core
Suggested packages:
autoconf2.13 autoconf-archive gnu-standards autoconf-doc libtool couchdb erlang-tools erlang
erlang-manpages erlang-doc-html devscripts python-openssl-doc python-openssl-dbg python-pam-dbg
python-wxgtk2.8 python-wxgtk2.6 python-wxgtk python-twisted-bin-dbg python-tk python-qt3
python-profiler zeitgeist-datahub
The following NEW packages will be installed:
autoconf automake autotools-dev couchdb-bin desktopcouch erlang-base erlang-crypto erlang-inets
erlang-mnesia erlang-public-key erlang-runtime-tools erlang-ssl erlang-syntax-tools
erlang-xmerl gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
intltool libsctp1 lksctp-tools m4 python-avahi python-couchdb python-desktopcouch
python-desktopcouch-records python-distutils-extra python-gnomekeyring python-openssl
python-pam python-serial python-twisted-bin python-twisted-core tibesti zeitgeist-core
0 upgraded, 33 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 28.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? N
No thanks. I expect a few dependencies for a tool like this, but not 33.