recordmydesktop
Record desktop screen to video file
TLDR
Record full screen
SYNOPSIS
recordmydesktop [options]
DESCRIPTION
recordmydesktop is a lightweight screen recorder for Linux X11 sessions that captures desktop video and audio to Ogg Theora/Vorbis format. It can record the full screen, a specific window selected by ID, or a rectangular region defined by position and dimensions.
Audio is captured from the default ALSA or OSS input device and can be disabled with --no-sound. Recording is stopped with Ctrl+C, after which the tool encodes the captured frames into the final output file. The --on-the-fly-encoding option encodes during recording to reduce post-processing time at the cost of higher CPU usage.
PARAMETERS
-o file
Output file.--windowid id
Record specific window.-x, -y
Starting position.--width, --height
Recording dimensions.--no-sound
Disable audio.--fps n
Frames per second.--delay n
Delay before start.--on-the-fly-encoding
Encode while recording.
EXAMPLES
recordmydesktop -o screencast.ogv
# Record window (click to select)
recordmydesktop --windowid $(xdotool selectwindow)
# Record region
recordmydesktop -x 0 -y 0 --width 1280 --height 720 -o region.ogv
# High quality
recordmydesktop --v_quality 63 --s_quality 10 -o hq.ogv
# No cursor
recordmydesktop --no-cursor -o nocursor.ogv
CONTROLS
Ctrl+Alt+P - Pause (if enabled)
CAVEATS
X11 only (no Wayland). Output is Ogg format. Convert with ffmpeg for other formats.
HISTORY
recordmydesktop was created by John Googalidis as a simple, efficient screen recorder for Linux.
SEE ALSO
ffmpeg(1), peek(1), obs(1), simplescreenrecorder(1)