ffmpeg screen capture

[3dmatrix]

I am using the following command to capture video being played in my browser.

ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 768x576 -r 30 -i :0.0+300,150 ~/output.mpg -ab 64k

I can capture the video but there are two problems
* Video quality is too poor how can i improve it ?
* Sound is not being recorded, perhaps i have not mentioned the sound capture device. But i do not have much idea abt it.

Can any one plz help me with this ?

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[Bucky Ball]

Thread moved to Multimedia & Video

[3dmatrix]

Any solution ?

[FakeOutdoorsman]

See HOWTO: Proper Screencasting on Linux.

[3dmatrix]

See HOWTO: Proper Screencasting on Linux.

Thats a wonderful thread ! Things are mentioned in great details. But when i use the following code :

ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -f x11grab -r 30 -s 618x474 -i :0.0+450,134 -acodec pcm_s16le -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast -crf 0 -threads 0 output.mkv

I get the following error :

[matroska @ 0x8309ba0] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 1: 1 >= 1
av_interleaved_write_frame(): Invalid argument

With this command :

ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:0,0 -f x11grab -r 30 -s 1024x768 -i :0.0 -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast -crf 0 -an -y output.mkv -acodec pcm_s16le -y output.wav

I get this error :

ffmpeg version 0.8.3-4:0.8.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the Libav developers
built on Jun 12 2012 16:37:58 with gcc 4.6.3
*** THIS PROGRAM IS DEPRECATED ***
This program is only provided for compatibility and will be removed in a future release. Please use avconv instead.
[alsa @ 0x87f6240] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, alsa, from 'hw:0,0':
Duration: N/A, start: 35358.999152, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 1536 kb/s
[x11grab @ 0x8806740] device: :0.0 -> display: :0.0 x: 0 y: 0 width: 1024 height: 768
[x11grab @ 0x8806740] shared memory extension found
[x11grab @ 0x8806740] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #1, x11grab, from ':0.0':
Duration: N/A, start: 1349473809.635993, bitrate: 754974 kb/s
Stream #1.0: Video: rawvideo, bgra, 1024x768, 754974 kb/s, 30 tbr, 1000k tbn, 30 tbc
Output #1, wav, to 'output.wav':
Output file #1 does not contain any stream

Moreover if i only use ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:0,0 -acodec pcm_s16le -y output.wav command it captures sound from the ic and not the application / speaker sound. How do i change over to it ?

As mentioned earlier i can always record the video by ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 768x576 -r 30 -i :0.0+300,150 ~/output.mpg command.

Can you kindly tell me what is going wrong ?

This command is working
ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:0,0 -acodec pcm_s16le -f x11grab -s 320x240 -r 30 -i :0.0 ~/out3.mpg
but the video quality is too poor (i would like to record a lossless video) and the sound is being captured from the mic and not from the speaker / application. And with this command ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:0,0 -acodec pcm_s16le -f x11grab -r 30 -s 618x474 -i :0.0+350,134 ~/out4.m4v the video quality is good, but the sound is not sync with the video and again the sound is captured from the mic.

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[FakeOutdoorsman]

Thats a wonderful thread ! Things are mentioned in great details. But when i use the following code :

ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -f x11grab -r 30 -s 618x474 -i :0.0+450,134 -acodec pcm_s16le -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast -crf 0 -threads 0 output.mkv

I get the following error :

[matroska @ 0x8309ba0] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 1: 1 >= 1
av_interleaved_write_frame(): Invalid argument

The guide was written for FFmpeg. Ubuntu no longer uses FFmpeg, but supplies a "fake" ffmpeg package from a fork called libav. It may work as expected with the real ffmpeg (it works for me). You can either compile it as shown here: How To Compile FFmpeg and x264 on Ubuntu, or perhaps use Jon Severinsson's FFmpeg PPA. I recommend compiling since the PPA will not provide the latest FFmpeg code.

Moreover if i only use ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:0,0 -acodec pcm_s16le -y output.wav command it captures sound from the ic and not the application / speaker sound. How do i change over to it ?

See Capturing audio with FFmpeg and ALSA, or if you use pulse instead of alsa see the FAQ in the screencast guide.