istanbul (1) Linux Manual Page
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).