How to Install Simple Screen Recorder on Ubuntu & LinuxMint

Screen Recorder applications are useful for the persons who create demos, how to tutorials etc. Simple Screen Recorder (SSR) provides us a fast and efficient way to record your system’s screen. Using SSR you can record an entire screen of your system or only selected area in a rectangular format.

SSR Benefits

• SSR is multi-threaded
• SSR is capable for Live streaming of videos
• SSR supports many different types of codecs like MKV, WebM, MP4 etc
• SSR can record on 32-bit OpenGL application within a 64-bit OS

SSR Installation

Using below steps first add the required PPA (ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder) to our system. After that update the repository and then install simplescreenrecorder package.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder

Record Screen Using SSR

Start Simple Screen Recorder using menus on your system and start recording as per requirement.

Now just click on start recording.