Solution to record your Desktop Using FFMPEG in linux

Install ffmpeg packages in linux ( fedora, ubuntu and etc ) using installers (yum,apt-get and etc)

use the following command to record the Desktop :


ffmpeg -r 30 -s 1280x720  -f x11grab -i :0.0 -vcodec msmpeg4v2 -qscale 1 out.avi

But when we give resolution 1280x720 it will only take that part of your Desktop ( or some it will not record when your Desktop resolution is less the specified ) for that problem we need use one small script to record the Desktop

cat > record_myDesktop.sh  << EOF

#!/bin/bash

cur_dis=$( xrandr | grep '*' )

res=$(echo $cur_dis |awk '{print $1}')

echo $cur_dis

echo "ffmpeg -r 30 -s $res -f x11grab -i :0.0 -vcodec msmpeg4v2 -qscale 1 out.avi"

ffmpeg -r 30 -s $res -f x11grab -i :0.0 -vcodec msmpeg4v2 -qscale 1 out.avi

EOF

chmod +x record_myDesktop.sh 

./record_myDesktop.sh

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