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istanbul: a desktop session recorder

NAME

istanbul - a desktop session recorder

SYNOPSIS

istanbul [options]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the istanbul command.

istanbul is a program that allow you to record your desktop session. After you started it, you can control it with the icon in the notification area: a click on the icon to start recording, another click to stop.

istanbul preferences can be configured with a right click on the icon.

It can also stream to an Icecast2 server.

By default it records to ~/desktop-recording.ogg

OPTIONS

Istanbul follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-h, -?, --help

Show summary of options.

--version

Show version of program.

--usage

Display brief usage message

Istanbul accepts also GStreamer options.

A summary of them is included below.

--gst-version

Print the GStreamer version

--gst-fatal-warnings

Make all warnings fatal

--gst-debug-help

Print available debug categories and exit

--gst-debug-level=LEVEL

Default debug level from 1 (only error) to 5 (anything) or 0 for no output

--gst-debug=LIST

Comma-separated list of category_name:level pairs to set specific levels for the individual categories

--gst-debug-no-color

Disable colored debugging output

--gst-debug-disable

Disable debugging

--gst-disable-cpu-opt

Disable accelerated CPU instructions

--gst-plugin-spew

Enable verbose plugin loading diagnostics

--gst-plugin-path=PATHS

path list for loading plugins (separated by ':')

--gst-plugin-load=PLUGINS

Comma-separated list of plugins to preload in addition to the list stored in environment variable GST_PLUGIN_PATH

--gst-disable-segtrap

Disable trapping of segmentation faults during plugin loading

--gst-scheduler=SCHEDULER

Scheduler to use (default is 'opt')

--gst-registry=REGISTRY

Registry to use

AUTHOR

Istanbul was written by Zaheer Abbas Merali <zaheerabbas [at] merali.org>.

This manual page was written by Luca Bruno <luca.br [at] uno.it>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).