Kazam screencaster lets you record on-screen action into a video file. Its features include a well designed interface, ability to record two audio channels, built-in support for volume adjustments and delay timer. You can also chose between VP8 or H264 codecs.
Kazam has been updated to version 1.0.6 with new features and improvements.
- Speed optimization flags for VP8 and performance increase.
- Encoding parameters for H264 optimized, also performance increase.
- Changed H264 container to MP4 instead of Matroska, added streaming and faststart options.
If you are using Ubuntu 11.10, run the commands below to install.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kazam-team/stable-series
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kazam
Kazam Screencaster version 1.2.0 has been released. This is the latest stable version and many new changes and fixes have made into this release.
- Ability to record two audio channels. Volume levels for these channels can be configured.
- Record video in VP8 or H264 codecs
- Countdown Timer
- Adjust framerate
- Mouse Capture
- Ability to record user specified region
- Uses Gstreamer as backend (not ffmpeg)
- Unity, Gnome Shell, Classic Gnome sessions supported
Changes in version 1.2.0
Kazam Screencaster 1.0, a cool screencasting application for Linux, has been released today.


