On date Tuesday 2010-07-27 14:30:20 +0530, Sridhar Venkataraman encoded: > Hi All. > > I am planning to use FFMpeg to record my screen actions(for a > screencast) for Windows and Mac. I have the following questions > regarding that and would be glad if someone could answer them. > > > 1. Can FFMpeg be used to do screen capture (I am looking at > recording my actions on my desktop as well as recording the audio > from Mic) ? After going through the internet felt that we can do > it. Can someone please confirm this
My quick answer is *no* at least for Windows, there is no screen capturing device available for it, and I currently have no much ideas about which capturing interface is used in Windows (and BTW that would be possible implementing such an interface). > 2. I believe to do screen capture we have to enable -x11grab in the > configuration while compiling FFMpeg. Even after compiling FFMpeg > with -x11grab I was unable to use the command. Got an error saying > "Unknown input format - x11grab". Though I have compiled can someone > please share me some good URL that gives me step-by-step guide > explaining how to recompile FFMpeg on Windows and Mac? There is a glitch in the configure, for which if you enabled --enable-x11grab and the configure cannot find the lbraries/headers required, it will not complain and x11grab will be disabled. Maybe I'll have a look at that. As for what regards Linux/Mac (I'm not sure x11grab is available there): http://verb3k.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/how-to-do-proper-screencasts-on-linux/ > I am pretty new to FFMpeg, so would appreciate if someone could > guide me over this. If you feel the questions asked have been > answered already in some other thread, would be great if you could > direct me over there. > > Thanks in advance. Regards. _______________________________________________ libav-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
