muhammadghazali/screencasting.sh

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A bash script to screencasting using ffmpeg. The video will recorded in mp4 format and saved on the current directory. Reference: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreenCasts/ffmpeg

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screencasting.sh

	#!/bin/bash

	# generate the file name using the string provided on the args
	ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1366x768 -i :0.0 -vcodec libx264 -sameq $1.mp4

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muhammadghazali commented Dec 12, 2012

How to use

Make sure you make the script file is executable using this command

chmod +x screencasting.sh

Run this command:

./screencasting.sh video-name

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