RecordItNow is a powerful and intuitive video capture, recording and editing software. It is designed to help users capture and record their computer desktop activity with ease. It includes a wide range of features to let users record, edit, store and share their videos with friends and colleagues. The software is capable of recording audio, video and images in various formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV, FLV, SWF and more. The recorded videos can be uploaded directly to YouTube, or saved to a DVD or Blu-ray disc. It also features a built-in screen capture tool, allowing users to capture screenshots of their desktop and save them directly to their computer. Additionally, users can add annotations and captions to their videos, as well as adjust the video's resolution, frame rate and encoding settings. RecordItNow also allows users to create and share videos with friends and colleagues through a variety of social networks and websites.
Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed. The latest version, 2.7 r316, released in May 2015, can still be downloaded from SourceForge.
Warning As described in the VirusTotal comment (https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/1ddb733efb11769a05cc735d555e9a4df92c4cdf29fa47ea3864e57e67dcf884/analysis/1411383540/): if you download CamStudio from the chest of things in the type of material on which it is installed. After installing this version of SF, it immediately says that there is an update available. When you click on the link, it takes you to camstudio.org, which has a zip file that, scanned with VirusTotal, gives you a score of 15/53. So do NOT download and install the "update": it is malware. Installer as of 09/22/2014.
Discontinued The project is no longer being developed. The latest version, 0.3.8.1, released in December 2008, can still be downloaded from SourceForge.
Simple GUI, easy to understand, does the job and does not fail. I used the PPA in Ubuntu.