Questions tagged [screen-capture]
Screen capture is the act of capturing the video on a computer screen either as a point in time (screenshot) or live streaming.
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Screen Casting using ffmpeg (too fast)
I can use ffmpeg to make screen casts:
ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1280x800 -i :0.0 -c:v libx264 -framerate 30 -r 30 -crf 18 out.mkv
However the output comes out to be too fast paced. It also happens with ...
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Crop and capture screen software/plugin for Windows 7 [closed]
Does anyone know of any software or a browser extension that lets me capture what's on my screen and crop it by ratio?
I have Photoshop but don't want to keep opening it just to capture a simple ...
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FFmpeg screencast: capture only one window
I'm using FFmpeg with UScreenCapture under Windows 7 for screencast. Everything works fine, but I want to stream video from only one window - not the whole monitor. I know, there is an opportunity to ...
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What is the lightest possible way to record a screencast with ffmpeg?
I would like to capture a sreencast at 60fps.
I tried with this:
ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -c:a pcm_s16le -f x11grab -r 60 -s 1920x1080 -i :0.0 -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -crf 0 out.mkv
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Any alternative for PicPick on Mac OS X? [closed]
I need simple tool with two feathures, accessible by hotkeys:
Color picker;
Tool like "Screen Crosshair" in PicPick, for simple get size of any region of screen.
I can't find any alternative. Mac OS ...
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How do I capture my second monitor using avconv?
With this command:
avconv -f x11grab -s 2560x1440 -i :0.0
I can stream video from my main monitor. I also have a second, 1080p monitor on which I do my gaming. I want to stream from that monitor. ...
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Print Screen key going to black and white
Running Windows XP I am finding that printScreen button only captures a black and white image of the full screen but color for just one window (Alt-PrintScreen).
Is there a limit to how much memory ...
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Program that does a screen print every 15 minutes and saves it to a file [closed]
I remember hearing of some software that would take a screen print every 15 minutes and store it in a file. They mentioned it can be used to keep track of the amount of time you spent on a project.
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Windows 7: Screen recording is laggy
I want to make a video of a shooter game in 720p HD format in Windows 7. But the video is always laggy (low fps). I'm using Camtasia Studio.
If capture area (resolution) is smaller, the fps is OK, but ...
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Does anyone knows how TeamViewer gets screen capturing?
I'm looking for an way to record my Android's screen without rooting my phone. This will be on my work phone, so I'm not allowed to root it.
I recently found TeamViewer QuickSupport which lets you ...
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Rolling desktop recorder? [closed]
I want a piece of Windows software that will constantly record what I'm doing on my desktop, discarding footage that's over [30] seconds old. Its recording would be a rolling one.
The idea is that I ...
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How to applescript the 'grab' application
I am trying to write an apple script to use the "Grab" application in the Utilities folder to capture and print an application's window.
I can get to the part where I tell Grab to start window ...
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Make screen capture of PS3 connected to my monitor
When I change the input mode of my monitor to the PlayStation 3 (HDMI) and click Fn + Print Screen on my keyboard it takes a screenshot of my desktop computer instead of the game I'm playing.
Does ...
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Any Fraps alternatives out there? [closed]
Are there any Fraps alternatives out there to record gameplay footage?
CamStudio is out, since it's impossible to record gameplay footage with consistent and fluid fps
WeGame records in very bad ...
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Recoring screencasts with adobe captivate
I am trying out the adobe captivate and considering to buy, but the quality is not that great, and I dont know if its configuration or its just not possible to get better.
I set my screen resolution ...
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Is there a time management tool that allows to study browsing time? [closed]
I would like to help my friend with time management, and I'm looking for a problem that can
every X seconds (unless the computer was inactive for some minutes), measure what program (or if it's the ...
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Software to automate website screenshot capture [closed]
Do you know any software that can automate the process of getting screenshots of every page of a website? It would act like a spider/crawler/robot. You name it...
For example: I developed a website ...
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How can I get millisecond-level accuracy timestamps on screenshots (vlc)?
I'm currently using
rt.exec("C:\\VLC\\vlc screen:// --dshow-vdev=screen-capture-recorder --dshow-fps=10 -I dummy --dummy-quiet --rate=1 --video-filter=scene --vout=dummy --scene-format=jpg --scene-...
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How does the Print Screen key work? [closed]
I want to know how the Print Screen key works. This is useful to take a snap of the current screen, but how does is this possible? Is there software that run and take a snap when print screen key is ...
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Screencast recording performance (using ffmpeg)
Hello everybody out there doing desktop recordings,
On my old notebook with an Intel Mobile processor with 1.5 GHz and 1 GB RAM, producing a screencast is a pain.
I am using a framerate of 15 fps ...
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How to record screen while installing Windows?
Besides recording the screen with an actual camera what are the options to make, for example, a Windows installation video tutorial?
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What tools exist for capturing consecutive screenshots of a film? [closed]
Is there any tools that allow for capturing screenshots of a film at set intervals? E.g. something that captures a screenshot every second and saves them to files in an ordered sequence. I'm using ...
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The sound is periodically "dying" when capturing with ffmpeg + directshow
I am trying to capture video and sound with the following command
ffmpeg -f dshow -r 15 -i video=screen-capture-recorder:audio="Desktop Microphone (2- HD-5000 - Microsoft LifeCam.)" -acodec mp3 -...
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Why does the mouse lag when screen recording with CamStudio?
When I try to record a screen capture video using CamStudio (portable version), my mouse lags so much that it is practically impossible to do anything. Reducing the size of the region I'm capturing ...
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Why does MS Expression Recorder make the capture area blank/white in XP?
I have had this problem on 2 different virtual machines running Windows XP SP3. Basically, you can still see the green cross-hairs and outline while Expression Recorder is recording, but everything ...
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Why does the audio have such poor quality when I playback screen captures?
I can record a video and capture audio just fine, but when I play it back, there is something like white noise in the background, you can barely hear my voice, and it certainly isn't clear enough to ...
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Is there a utility to do OCR on images on the windows clipboard? [closed]
Sometimes, I find myself typing out a lot of text from a screen capture. Its quite tedious.
Is there an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program out there that would allow me to quickly convert ...
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Rapid screen capture program? [duplicate]
Are there any free cross-OS (or at least Windows) programs that will do rapid screen shots and save them as images? I'd like to create animated gifs with these.
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Mac & Photoshop: Screen capture of an application then pasting it into a new document in photoshop issue
This used to work perfectly up until about a month or two ago. When doing a screen capture onto the clipboard (cmd + ctr + shift + 4) and pasting it into a new document in Photoshop (only in ...
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Win7 Screen Cap to Realtime Video Driver?
Back in the ancient days of XP, I had a program (the name escapes me) that would allow you to specify a section of screen or the active area of a window the realtime content of which would then be ...
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On Site User Testing Software [closed]
Is there any software for OS X or Windows that can capture both the screen and capture the user via cam? I need this for on-site user testing where people sit down and try our app.
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How can I capture streaming video from broadcast tv website?
Soon a conference will be broadcast on one website.
How can I capture live streaming from my web browser?
Broadcast site: http://msu1.broadcastnow.ru/
And I am using Mac.
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Recording only one window in Gnomes 3 default desktop recorder
Gnome 3 has great feature under Ctrl-Alt-Shift-R shortcut1. I guess this is Istanbul. It appears that it's not istanbul... Yet I can't find any info about this program.
Where can I find man page? ...
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Camtasia, record around the mouse
How to record video only around the mouse cursor and when the mouse moves then follow it?
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Inexpensive, simple screen recording application for mac
I am more and more consistently running into the need to create screencasts (record my screen) for clients to show them how to use programs or websites. Up until now I've been using Jing and it's been ...
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App to add second mouse pointer?
I am using kindlevncviewer to display the screen of a Windows XP PC on a Kindle. This VNC viewer, however, seems to be incapable of displaying a mouse cursor.
Is there a small app for Windows XP that ...
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Pasting Mac screenshot selection into Photoshop doesn't preserve color depth
(I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.5, though I just upgraded from 10.5 maybe a month ago.)
Since time out of mind, I have been able to copy a screenshot selection to the clipboard (using cmd+ctrl+shift+4), and ...
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Mac software that displays pressed keys onscreen [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I see a visual overlay of shortcut keys I’ve pressed?
I'm planning to start a coding side-project in mid-November, and I would like to record some of my work on it as ...
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Can you reccomend a screen capture application with audio? [closed]
I will soon be attending a web course.
Is there any application that can record the video and audio being outputted to my screen?
My goal is to record the class so I can watch it later.
Windows ...
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timed desktop screenshot for timelapse [closed]
I've been looking around for a screen capture program that gives me actual images of the desktop, and allows me to take them on a certain interval so that I can combine them into a timelapse.
ex) ...
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How long does a recorded WebEx session remain available online?
How long does a recorded WebEx session remain available online?
I'd like to make a demo available around my company for a couple of months.
I have the link to the recorded session - should I just ...
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Screen capture program with trim function
I need a simple, no nonsense nor bloatware screen capture program with the ability to
- capture the current application
- capture full screen
- save the files with increasing index in the filename ...
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Is there way to do a screen capture in Microsoft OneNote?
Is there a method or a plugin to do a screencapture (ideally similar to JingCast) with Microsoft OneNote? Ideally it would be just a button similar to the one that turns on your webcam that would ...
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How can I change my Mac screen resolution without scaling to fit my monitor?
I know how to change my screen resolution, but I'm looking for a way to display a 1280 × 786 region in the centre of my display, without it being stretched to fit my 27" monitor!
My goal to record ...
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Convert GTK RecordMyDesktop OGV video for OpenShot editing
I make some screencasts with my laptop. The software that I use in Ubuntu is GTK RecordMyDesktop which gives me an OGV file.
The quality is perfect and I am happy with it.
For publishing or giving ...
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What is the best way to protect my computer from virus and screen readers? [closed]
I'm an avid Internet poker player.
What is the best way to make sure that I don't have viruses and programs that can read my screen on my computer?
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Screen capture an image in a scrolling flash window (Example website included)
I would like to capture the full size zoomed image that appears in the pop-up boxs when you click on the zoom button on this website:
http://www.restorationhardware.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?...
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Is there a way to get a 10000x10000 virtual resolution desktop?
I have a java applet map viewer and I'd like to plot out the map it displays. To do that I need to open it in a high enough resolution to avoid too much stitching.
Is there any possible way I could ...
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Screen capture program for Windows to capture scrolling content area of web page + other components of browser window
I am looking for something similiar to Free tool like Snagit which can capture scrolling Window? and Free Windows software for full-screen (including scrolling) screenshots, but also capable of ...
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Print Screen key of Windows on Mac
I've tried Win 7 on my MacBook. then I'm facing a problem of capturing the screen. I want to take the screen shot of the whole screen(including the cursor). I'm sure that I can grab it with the key "...
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