Troubleshooting Simple. Screen. Recorder Maarten Baerts website. Last modified Sat, 2. Dec 2. 01. 4Refresh. Linux. Its been around since the mid 90s, and has since reached a userbase that spans industries and continents. For those in the know, you understand that. Linux is a big scary beast. So were going to be looking at some of the best beginner Linux distros for all you Linuxy noobs out there. Official page for VLC media player, the Open Source video framework Arch Linux. Install simplescreenrecorder and optionally lib32simplescreenrecorder if you want to record 32bit OpenGL applications on a 64bit system. Some codecs e. g. H. 2. 64 are not installedSome distributions will omit codecs that have patent issues, but allow you to install them as a separate package. For Ubuntu, this can be done by running sudo apt get install libavcodec extra 5. Cant open output file error. This error indicates that the output file could not be created. Common causes are The output directory does not exist i. You dont have permission to write to the output directory. Your hard disk is full. Cant write header error. This error indicates that ffmpeglibav the underlying video and audio encoding library failed to initialize the output file. Common causes are You have selected a codec that is not supported by the container for example, you tried to use the VP8 video codec with the MP4 container. Your hard disk is full. Weird glitches horizontal lines, missing objects when using the NVIDIA proprietary drivers. Heres a screenshot of the bug appearing in Minecraft link. Luckily there is a simple fix. Go to the NVIDIA driver settings and disable allow flipping. Ive only seen this issue for the NVIDIA prorietary driver, but it may also apply to other driversvendors. Alternatively, switch to Open. GL recording. This issue will only appear when you use an Open. GL based compositing window manager Compiz, Mutter, KWin with effects enabled,. or when you run a fullscreen Open. GL application and you try to record it without Open. GL recording. Im pretty sure the cause is a race condition inside the X server, where the server tries to take a screenshot of the screen while at the same time the NVIDIA driver flips the front and back buffer. The result is a screenshot of the back buffer which is in the process of being redrawn rather than the front buffer. Open. GL recording doesnt work the application size is not recognized. If your application is 3. Steam, most Windows games running through WINE, and you have a 6. For easy yum installation use yum. sh script to download and install rpm. rte and all the packages needed for yum. AIX patches for these packages can be found at. Explains how to play MP3s, play DVDs, install Flash, see PDFs and other useful tips for Fedora users. Here are the steps for creating the driver Create a new file for the PCM5102a driver in the ASoC folder. soundsoccodecspcm5102a. c Copy the source code from spdif. Arch Linux Best distro ever 2017 January 10, 1425 h tags linux pacman pacaur asdf archlinux. Update 01182017 If youre on old hardware like me, you may want. Simple. Screen. Recorder libraries. More information can be found here. If this doesnt solve the problem, you may need to do something special to get the right environment variables to the program that you want to record. For example, Steam games need some special settings. Try running the program from a terminal, and look for lines like this SSR GLInject Library loaded 6. SSR GLInject GLXFrame. Grabber 1 Created GLX frame grabber. SSR GLInject devshmssr channel maartenvideo 1. Created video stream. SSR GLInject Open. GL version 4. 4 4. NVIDIA 3. 43. 3. 6. SSR GLInject devshmssr channel maartenvideo 1. If you dont see any lines starting with SSR GLInject, the library is not loaded, which means the program didnt get the right environment variables. If the program is started through a wrapper script, you should try to run the actual program directly, without the wrapper script. If you do see lines starting with SSR GLInject, but not the one with GLXFrame. Grabber in it, the application is probably not an Open. GL program. If you do see lines starting with SSR GLInject, including the one with GLXFrame. Grabber, but it still doesnt work, please send me a bug report. Open. GL recording is experimental, so it is possible that it doesnt work yet for all programs. Slowed down, out of sync audio when recording the speakers with Pulse. Audio. When this happens, you will usually get the following error message Warning Audio input is more than 5 too fast, video and audio will be out of sync. The cause is a bug in Pulse. Audio. The issue has been fixed and the fix should arrive in some future version probably 4. For now, you can work around the bug by modifying the file etcpulsedaemon. After doing this, you should restart Pulse. Audio or just reboot. These values will force Pulse. Audio to use the same sample rate at all times rather than switching between 4. Hz and 4. 80. 00 Hz which will trigger the bug. Some users have reported that sound recorded through Pulse. Audio is still buggy even after applying this workaround, so it appears that there is more than one bug in Pulse. Audio that can cause this issue. I havent been able to reproduce this myself though. If you are unable to fix the problems with Pulse. Audio, consider using JACK instead. No sound when recording the speakers with Pulse. Audio. If no sound is recorded, make sure the monitor channel is not muted. To do this, go to the Input devices tab in Pulse. Audio Volume Control, select Show All input devices and make sure the Mute audio button of the monitor channel is not enabled. Comments. Write a comment. Five Of The Best Beginner Linux Distros. Linux is considered by most to be a big scary place for new users to break into, but the truth is thats Linux distributions provide a great community for many technology enthusiasts to come together and share their ideas and of course their desktops. So if youre sick of looking at that familiar blue Widows desktop and youre looking to learn something new, or if you just want something thats more secure than WindowsMac, then take a look at some of the best beginner Linux distros below. Ubuntu. Ubuntu is very much the de facto Linux distro that most new users flock to. This is because its arguably the most well known of the whole lot. But the crown of most well known distro isnt unjustified as its a great operating system. I myself first dipped my foot into the Linux pond with Ubuntu. The Unity interface makes Ubuntu different from what you will be use to with other OSs like Windows and Mac, but its no more difficult to use. In fact, I would say its probably easier to use than other OSs as you only need to hit the super key windows button, type what youre looking for and hit enter. Theres no hunting around start menus here. You can read more about Ubuntu here. Elementary OS Luna. Elementary OS Luna Luna for short is a great operating system, its arguably the most highly polished Linux distribution out there. The whole point of Luna is to be easy to use, clean, and gorgeousall which its accomplishes and then some. Luna is based on Ubuntu, so if you know Ubuntu, then you will be able to easily find your way around Luna. Unlike Ubuntu, Luna doesnt use the Unity interface and as you can see from the screenshot above, its very different from Ubuntu. The whole premise is simplicity. Luna is a fantastic free alternative for both Windows and Mac migrants. More information about Luna can be found here. Zorin OSZorin OS is another great OS, but this one has its roots firmly in the Windows camp. With a traditional taskbar, start menu, and Windows looking theming throughout, no Windows user would feel alienated in Zorin. Even though Zorin does have it roots in Windows, it is different enough to whet your appetite and bring a lot of new features to the party. Personally I think Zorin OS is a beautiful, well made distro that thoroughly earns its place in this list of the best beginner Linux distros. You can get more info about Zorin OS from their homepage. Mint Cinnamon. Linux Mint is almost as popular as Ubuntu, and rightly so as Linux Mint is for all intents and purposes is Ubuntus little brother. Mint is a direct fork of Ubuntu but it has a lot of additional features added, including many codecs and pieces of software to help get you up and running right out of the box. Linux Mint uses the Cinnamon desktop, which again wont be unfamiliar to any of you Windows migrants out there. Once again though, it has familiarity, yet something completely different to offer its users so it probably wont get boring for you. You can get more information about Linux Mint Cinnamon from here. Pinguy. OSPinguy. OS is the ultimate in beginners distros, the whole point of Pinguy. OS is to give its users a complete out of the experience that requires absolutely no applications to install and no changes to be made but you can if you want to. It comes with a tonne of pre installed apps for just about everything you can think of. So you can literally install the base OS and youre away. Pinguy. OS is a great beginners distro but because of the extra weight in terms of its bundles applications, I wouldnt really recommend it for those of you that are running on older hardware. All in all Pinguy. OS will give you a really good, complete experience without having to lift a finger. Here is a link to more information about Pinguy. OS. Conclusion. Nowadays you dont have to be some kind of computing genius that spends their life in a command line interface to run Linux. You can get a beautiful, easy to use operating system that is completely different to anything else out there, very quickly and very easily. So what are you waiting for If youre thinking about giving Linux a try then I say jump right in Theres a community of people waiting to help you if you get stuck. If you decide to give Linux a try then please let us know in the comments section how you get on as we love hearing about new Linux users, and we would like to welcome you to the open source community. Good luck Five Of The Best Beginner Linux Distros. Your Rating. User Rating.