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Questions tagged [screencasting]

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GIF screencasting; the UNIX way

To take a static screenshot of a selected part of my screen, I often use scrot with -s shot.png. This is great for adding illustrations to StackExchange posts. I even found this script to automatically upload such a screenshot to Imgur.com and put a…
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Convert OGV video to GIF animation?

I created OGV videos with the gtk-recordmydesktop screencasting program, trying to tackle this problem here with bruteforce over X. I can view the videos with VLC. Now, the task is to find some ways to convert OGV videos into GIF animations so I can…
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How to get near-perfect screen recording quality?

Someone suggested I direct a copy of the unmodified X display to a file and afterwards convert that file to a general purpose video file. What commands would I use to do this on a Kubuntu system? (Edit: He said something about attaching a display…
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Typescript -terminal recording into video?

We need to make some videos about working with LaTex documents. We have the typescript and timing -files and now we need to convert them into videos to display them in answers. Basically, the way to do that is to make small Gif -animations.…
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Highlight mouse for screencasts without disturbing workflow

For making documentation/tutorial videos, I need to highlight the mouse, for example with a yellow translucent corona around it: The marker should be active when clicking and moving, but if it's on all the time, that's just as fine. It can obscure…
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HTML client for X11 ssh forwarding?

Not totally sure if this is the right place but here goes. I understand that you are able to use X11 to ssh to GUI's and view them, without the server having a full on GUI system running/installed like gnome or something. My end goal is to be able…
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How can I paste a gif from the clipboard with xclip?

I'm trying to copy a gif into my clipboard such that I would be able to paste it into web applications (slack, github, etc.). I have tried the following without any luck: xclip -selection clipboard -t image/gif < /path/to/image.gif
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Screen recording at 60 fps

I'm interested in trying to record my screen so I can do walkthroughs of games and such. Usually these are action games, so high resolution and fps are both important. I'm using kazam to try and record my screen at 1920x1080x60 fps. However, the…
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Gnome 3.10 ScreenCast + Audio on Arch

I'm trying to record my desktop (including audio) in Gnome 3.10 on Arch Linux with the built-in screen recorder (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R). According to this post (and other similar solutions that can be found on the Internet), I've tried to apply the gconf…
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X11 protocol recorder

I'm wondering if there is a tool (or a tool-set) to record every single X11 message received from the server, to post-render them in a movie. I think this could be very useful to create screen-cast: theoretically, it should reproduces perfectly the…
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"Screen sharing" on the command line?

If I am logged in to a remote server, and someone else is logged in to the same server, isn't there some way via the command line to let them "look over my shoulder"? Of course I could copy and paste my terminal scrollback buffer at intervals and…
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Record screencast on nonactive workspace

Is it possible to make a screencast (for example of a streaming video) on a nonactive workspace? I usually use simplescreenrecorder for screencasts and xmonad as window manager, but the solution might involve other software. Maybe it is possible to…
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Trying to record a screencast using ffmpeg but my mouse pointer is invisible

I'm trying to record a screencast using ffmpeg but my mouse pointer is invisible. What am I doing wrong? This is the command: ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -f x11grab -r 30 -s 1024x768 -i :0.0 -acodec pcm_s16le \ -vcodec libx264 -preset…
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Desktop audio falls behind when recording microphone + desktop audio + screen using ffmpeg

I have put together this script for recording the microphone, the desktop audio and the screen using ffmpeg: DATE=`which date` RESO=2560x1440 FPS=30 PRESET=ultrafast DIRECTORY=$HOME/Video/ FILENAME=videocast`$DATE +%d%m%Y_%H.%M.%S`.mkv ffmpeg -y…
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How to mix two input sources in Pulseaudio (for recording mic and speakers with SimpleScreenRecorder)

I happen to record a meeting using SimpleScreenRecorder (SSR) on Linux. I use Pulseaudio and default configurations. When SSR records the screen and audio, it records the speakers output, but not my microphone. I know that I can create a loopback…
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