Linux Screen Recording & Capturing Applications

There would be many occasions in your day to day work or life when you want to guide someone in using any particular application for any purpose but can't give him step-by-step instructions, wouldn't it be best if you could record the whole screen and send the video to the person in need ?

Well in such as case screen recording or Screen Capturing applications can come to your rescue.
For windows you could find plenty of commercial as well as free-ware screen recording & capturing applications But what about Linux ?
Well not to worry, in this post I will cover some of the Screen Recording and Screen Capturing applications available for our Linux system. So lets take a look of our options:
XVidCap Screen Capture
This one is my favorite screen recording application which I use frequently. It is a screen capture utility which enables you to capture videos off your X-Window desktop for illustration or documentation purposes. It is a worthwhile alternative to the Windows based application CamStudio.It captures the video which could be saved in MPEG or AVI format which you could easily view by using player like VLC Player or Linux native movie player. It is available in .deb format for Ubuntu & Debian Linux in both 32 bit & 64 bit version.
It is very easy to install it if you are using Ubuntu or Debian.For Ubuntu go to Applications- Ubuntu Software Center
In the Get software search box type – XVidCap Screen Capture
The software center will show you the install available page as XVidCap is available in the Ubuntu repository and click on install by providing administrative password.

To access XvidCap, click on Applications- Sound & Video –XvidCap Screen Capture Click on it ,on clicking you will get a small window with the available options .You will find a red rectangle beneath the application window.

Stretch the red window upto the area that you want to cover in the recording and click on the red button to start the recording as shown in the below image;

Now you could record anything on your screen in a video format.