Kazam Screencaster reached certain maturity and I am happy to announce a stable 1.20 release. Codenamed as NCC-1701D it hit PPA repositories just yesterday.
For Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin you can use a stable PPA repository:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kazam-team/stable-series
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install kazam
Ubuntu packages were also tested on Linux Mint and you shouldn’t have any problems running Kazam on Linux Mint 12. I also tested Kazam on Fedora 16, everything should work as expected, but you will have to solve all the dependencies by yourself, because I cannot provide a working RPM package.
All of the issues reported so far were fixed. A short list of smaller new things that were added:
region size is now displayed in the region window, screen resolution change is detected and video source selector is now updated accordingly, debug option –debug was added it should be used when reporting bugs, expect a lot of debug output, countdown window and about dialog box made prettier, App indicator menu and Gtk Status Icon were slightly changed, various changes in packaging, some RPM info added to setup.py
For the end, the latest screen shot from Precise Pangolin and a rumor that Kazam was uploaded to Ubuntu Universe repository and is waiting for review.
Kazam Screencaster 1.2.0
Please report all the bugs, wishes, suggestions, and feature requests on Launchpad.
Custom region recording.
Kazam 0.91-ubuntu5 and ubuntu6 for Oneiric Ocelot and Precise Pangolin packages are available. Source code is acab be found in the standard place on Launchpad. This is the last planned release before 0.92 which will be a week before Precise Pangoling Feature Freeze. Right now there are no immediate plans for adding new features before 1.0 release. Kazam release will coincide with Precise Pangolin release. So, a quick rundown of new feature in this release:
Gtk3 port is finally complete. Appindicator will now fall back to Gtk.StatusIcon. It is now possible to record custom screen region. Recording frame rate is now a customizable option from 1 to 60 frames per second. If not needed or wanted, mouse cursor can be turned of in the recording.
You can get the packages from the unstable ppa. And please, do report those bugs you find. :)
Kazams 0.90 released in the unstable-serie. Few modifications to PulseAudio support and a complete port to Gtk3. This version will not work with Gtk2 and there will be no backporting to older Ubuntu releases. Currently only Oneiric Ocelot 11.10 and Precise Pangolin 12.04 are supported.
Bugs addressed and fixes commited to: #896806, #661767, #656864, #662374, #635921, #732166, #739171, #908768, #660673, #660687.
If you had Kazam previously installed from unstable series PPA it will be upgraded automatically. If you are trying new installation, then you’ll find more detailed instructions here.
UPDATE: Kazam 0.91 was released, read more about it.
Kazam is being updated on a daily basis. Right now, most of the effort is directed into porting Kazam to Gtk3. I’ve decided to drop Gtk2 and go with Python and Gnome Introspection. Lots of the code was rewritten and porting is about 80% done. Most of the updates went smoothly with an exception of countdown timer splash screen. Read on, to find out what else has changed.
UPDATE: Kazam 0.91 was released, read more about it.
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Kazam Screencaster is a small program used for screen recording. It was mainly written by Andrew Higginson, you can read his initial blog post about it to get more background info. After the release of Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) there were no updates and and new releases and initial release will fail to install on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). I’ve dug into the sources a little and fixed few minor issues and made everything installable on Ubuntu 11.10.
Later, I’ve exchanged couple of emails with Andrew and offered my help. So, I’ll release an official version of Kazam in mid January and continue to work on it.
UPDATE: Kazam 0.91 was released, read more about it.
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