The official FFmpeg wiki gives you the following commands ...
# Linux wo audio
ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1024x768 -i :0.0+100,200 output.flv
# Linux w audio
ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1024x768 -i :0.0+100,200 -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse output.flv
# Windows wo audio
ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="UScreenCapture" output.flv
# Windows w audio
ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="UScreenCapture":audio="Microphone" output.flv
# List available devices
ffmpeg -list_devices true -f dshow -i dummy
# Two phase recording (first record uncompressed, then compress)
# On Linux w audio ...
ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1024x768 -i :0.0+100,200 -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -vcodec libx264 -crf 0 -preset ultrafast -acodec pcm_s16le output.flv
ffmpeg -i output.flv -acodec ... -vcodec ... final.flv
# On Windows w audio ...
ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="UScreenCapture":audio="Microphone" -vcodec libx264 -crf 0 -preset ultrafast -acodec pcm_s16le output.flv
ffmpeg -i output.flv -acodec ... -vcodec ... final.flv
Some
other blogs use a little different set of FFmpeg options:
ffmpeg -f alsa -i pulse -f x11grab -r 30 -s 1024x768 -i :0.0 -acodec pcm_s16le -vcodec libx264 -vpre lossless_ultrafast -threads 0 output.mkv
Essentially it's the same as the last one from the FFmpeg wiki, but the preset is defined via
-vpre
(instead of
-preset
) and it's value is lossless_ultrafast, which means there'll be no quality loss due to the double encoding. And
-threads 0
gives FFmpeg all the available computing power there is.
In another
blog post the use of
xwininfo -frame
is explained to get the capture width+height and the offset of the upper-left corner for FFmpeg's
-s
and
-i
options.
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