Istanbul is a desktop session recorder for the Free Desktop. You can easily make video by this software. It records your session into an Ogg Theora video file. To start the recording, you click on its icon in the notification area. To stop you click its icon again. It works on GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others.

Istanbul requires at least following packages:

• GStreamer 0.10

• Gst-plugins-base 0.10

• PyGTK 2.6

• Gnome Python Extras >= 2.11.3

• Gst-python 0.10

• python-xlib

Installation process on fedora8 | Centos 5 :-

[root@piyush ~]# yum install istanbul

Or you can also install by source :-

[root@piyush ~]# cd /opt
[root@piyush opt]# wget http://zaheer.merali.org/istanbul-0.2.2.tar.bz2
[root@piyush opt]#  tar -jxvf istanbul-0.2.2.tar.bz2
[root@piyush istanbul-0.2.2]# cd istanbul-0.2.2

[root@piyush istanbul-0.2.2]# ./configure
[root@piyush istanbul-0.2.2]# make
[root@piyush istanbul-0.2.2]# make install

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Enjoy Linux !!!