1istanbul(1) General Commands Manual istanbul(1)
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6 istanbul - a desktop session recorder
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9 istanbul [options]
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12 This manual page documents briefly the istanbul command.
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14 istanbul is a program that allow you to record your desktop session.
15 After you started it, you can control it with the icon in the notifica‐
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19 istanbul preferences can be configured with a right click on the icon.
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21 It can also stream to an Icecast2 server.
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23 By default it records to ~/desktop-recording.ogg
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26 Istanbul follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options
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30 -h, -?, --help
31 Show summary of options.
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33 --version
34 Show version of program.
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36 --usage
37 Display brief usage message
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39 Istanbul accepts also GStreamer options.
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42 --gst-version
43 Print the GStreamer version
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45 --gst-fatal-warnings
46 Make all warnings fatal
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48 --gst-debug-help
49 Print available debug categories and exit
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51 --gst-debug-level=LEVEL
52 Default debug level from 1 (only error) to 5 (anything) or 0 for
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59 --gst-debug-no-color
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62 --gst-debug-disable
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65 --gst-disable-cpu-opt
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68 --gst-plugin-spew
69 Enable verbose plugin loading diagnostics
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71 --gst-plugin-path=PATHS
72 path list for loading plugins (separated by ':')
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74 --gst-plugin-load=PLUGINS
75 Comma-separated list of plugins to preload in addition to the
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78 --gst-disable-segtrap
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81 --gst-scheduler=SCHEDULER
82 Scheduler to use (default is 'opt')
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85 Registry to use
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88 Istanbul was written by Zaheer Abbas Merali <zaheerabbas@merali.org>.
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90 This manual page was written by Luca Bruno <luca.br@uno.it>, for the
91 Debian project (but may be used by others).
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