There is a system tray that you can use for starting/pausing/stopping a video. Select a mode and hit the Start button at the bottom to begin recording the content, or to pause or stop it. It appears to be a placeholder setting for now. I was able to get it working by switching from Area mode, a crosshair to select the window appeared, but the program said it needed a codec. Note: Window mode is only available in the Linux version, it's unclear why. You can of course drag the arrows on the screen to resize it and use it as free-region selector. Area mode has preset resolutions that you can pick to resize the view-finder to the corresponding size (say 320 x 200 pixels). Fullscreen mode captures everything on the screen and supports monitor selection if you have multiple monitors. You have two options to choose from: fullscreen and area. You can use this to record the content on the screen. I spent an hour trying to figure out why the shortcut I placed on the taskbar was buggy until I noticed the Start Menu shortcut had the vbs in the Target field. Instead, run the vokoscreenNG.vbs, which then runs the executable in a working state.

Do not run the vokoscreenNG.EXE directly, if you do you will notice that none of the video formats are available and the program doesn't work as intended. Note: There is a strange issue with the Windows version. The sidebar has four options: Screencast, Camera, Player and Log. The interface has two sidebars, one at the top and the other to the left of the screen.

The application is based on vokoscreen, also open source and from the same developer, but the new version has been completely re-written in Qt and GStreamer.Įvery option in the program has an i (information button) next to it which you may activate to explain the function which is helpful for new users an option to turn these off would be useful however to declutter the interface.

Record screencast