Screen Capture

Whether you need to capture what's happening on your screen for a performance, a tutorial, or for live broadcast, there are several ways to record the Linux screen.

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User rowinggolfer devised this hybrid method of not only capturing the screen, but also super-imposing and in-setting video from a webcam to achieve a live picture-in-picture mode.

Start the webcam in a non-intrusive frame. mplayer fits the bill here.

$ mplayer -cache 128 -tv driver=v4l2:width=320:height=240 -vo xv tv://foo

When that window appears, resize it, place it where you find least intrusive, and set it to remain “on top” by right-clicking the title bar blah blah

In another terminal, do this

~$ ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/dsp -f x11grab -s xga -r 15 -i :0.0 out.mp4

Record your screencast.

hit q in the second terminal when you are finished.

If this works.. replace out.mp4 with whatever format or stream you wish to create.

THere are two versions: Record my desktop and Qrecordmy deskteop