EasyCast screen recorder fixed

Finally, after so many years, thinking of making some videos about EasyOS, for posting on YouTube. I used EasyCast a couple of years ago, and it worked. But now it is broken.

Some missing icons, which caused a crash. Fixed that, but then found it was not correctly detecting the microphone input. Also, underlying utility, 'recordmydesktop', is designed for ALSA. Fixed both of those. The PET has been bumped from version 2.0 to 2.1.

A bit of history; EasyCast was originally created by Argolance in the old forum, in 2009, then SFR worked on it in 2015, and me in 2022.

In 2022, posted to the blog:

https://bkhome.org/news/202203/easycast-20-screen-recording.html

...remarked on a lapel microphone having high background hum. Yes, a microphone does need electronic noise-cancelling. I have a Creative HS-230 headset, with boom microphone -- background noise quite low.

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