How to Record Video in Linux With ffmpeg

In this video I show you the easy way to record you screen in linux with ffmpeg

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[iamjaiguy]

Definitely agree that OBS is bloat but much needed bloat. Its industry standard for streaming usually with a capture card because it allows users to do so much like overlay, volume mixing, program capture, etc. But if you don't need any of that then its not that useful.

[Alexbl]

The cause of my depression has been "man ffmpeg"

[lawrencedoliveiro]

3:49 FFmpeg is actually a suite of tools. Besides the “ffmpeg” executable, there is also “ffprobe” for analyzing the structure of media files, and “ffplay”, which is a basic command-line-based media player. Plus there are a bunch of underlying libraries (libavfilter, libavcodec, libavformat, libswscale etc), that apps can link directly against.

Myself, I have written a few programs that made use of FFmpeg. In every case so far, it was easier to spawn the standard FFmpeg executables and feed them suitable command lines, than to try to make use of the libraries myself.

[lawrencedoliveiro]

10:43 Tip: the “-y” option tells it to overwrite an existing output file without asking.

Yeah, it can be dangerous ...

[rm-rf]

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

[spicasuzuki]

Damn, i discovered this channel from a gentoo meme months ago and i have been looking at your videos in the last few days and you are so underrated.

[marcovirtual]

Was missing your videos. Glad you're back!

[ninline]

Very good video. Clear, concise and informative. Thanks!

[hedgeearthridge]

I had to go through an adventure figuring out Video encoders and containers for Linux, it might be a good thing to do a video on.

H.264 and H.265 video codec is the devil, because they are in a Patent Hell. Extremely proprietary and has royalties. Distros like openSUSE do not come with them because of it, so you have to install them through a community repo. VP9 is open source, though it has it's issues compared to H.264.

Containers are different. Im still not sure about all of them yet. I know .WEBM is open source and uses VP9

[hyperpug]

I was just learning about ffmpeg for work. It's the second time you make a video about something I need for work just in time. Are you a mind reader lol?

[BradenBest]

It's not necessarily true that your display is :0.0, even if you're on a single monitor setup. I for one can never be sure what my display ID is because it seems to always change on me. Sometimes it's :0, other times it's :1 and I recall one time when it was :2. Use the $DISPLAY variable to see what your actual display ID is.

[fernandomota]

Hey man, can you talk about -IBM- Red Hat headshoting CentOS 8?

[joepelletier]

You could record both audio streams separately I suppose, and combine them in kdenlive

[BoanergesTWELF]

Pretty cool that my first build made last year uses the same cpu demonstrated in this video, it's such a beast! can't wait to try this out

[sturm]

I think there is a front end for using ffmpeg to record your screen. It's called "Simple Screen Recorder". It's available for debian based distros as far as i know.

[tacokoneko]

pulseaudio is superior to alsa-only in that it can mix, feedback and reroute audio anywhere, between sound controllers, and create virtual sinks to feed programs into, and powerful GUI tools expose many (though not all) of these features, reducing the number of commands needed when changing settings on the fly, but obviously if you need to do this you're already using or going to need at least a few fully-featured, heavyweight audio-enabled applications, beyond just a web browser, as opposed to the extremely minimal install it seems meaningful to ditch pulseaudio on.

[arcticular]

You got me into Linux with these videos, keep up the good content.

[pbxdpvl]

Mr Mental Outlaw, I'm highly curious to see how your ALSA endeavors go. I'm a sound guy myself and have always been frustrated with the Linux for hifi audio and pro audio work. People online routinely claim OSS is better, and I think the BSD guys have their own remnant of that older system actually, if I'm not mistaken. Do a search for OSS vs ALSA and I think at the very least you might even find some compelling arguments for resurrecting and fixing OSS.

Another interesting point: old KORG workstation synthesizers were using Linux OSs with B&W touchscreens and hifi audio in 1999... (Such as the Triton). I wonder what kind of audio solution KORG used, and whether or not their modern systems are still based on Linux.

[iusegentoobtw]

I use obs for longer videos, but I've been doing small webms with peek, since it is essentially dumbware that just works.

[TnMe]

> unregistered hypercam


oh man, that brought me back