recordmydesktop

Record desktop screen to video file

TLDR

Record full screen

$ recordmydesktop -o [output.ogv]

Record specific window

$ recordmydesktop --windowid $(xdotool selectwindow) -o [output.ogv]

Record area

$ recordmydesktop -x [100] -y [100] --width [800] --height [600] -o [output.ogv]

Record without sound

$ recordmydesktop --no-sound -o [output.ogv]

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

$ # Record full screen
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