istanbul (1) Linux Manual Page
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).