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If I want to record my desktop, I use:

ffmpeg -f x11grab -s `xdpyinfo | grep -i dimensions: | sed 's/[^0-9]*pixels.*(.*).*//' | sed 's/[^0-9x]*//'` -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq valami.avi

But it doesn't save any audio -- how can I include sound with the video?

Extra: How can I set on-the-fly encoding like with x264 + mp3:128kbit?

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    have you seen this question? unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3490/…
    – Mike Pennington
    Jun 14, 2011 at 13:02
  • For the screen resolution, a more compact way than grep + sed + sed is to use awk: xdpyinfo |awk '/dimensions:/{printf $2}'
    – Peter.O
    Jun 14, 2011 at 20:39
  • The link given by @Mike works for pulseaudio. I'd like to see a solution for us using alsa :)
    – invert
    Aug 5, 2011 at 15:50

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Just add -ad device_you_want_to_record

You might also want to tweak your audio codec.

This site has good examples: https://verb3k.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/how-to-do-proper-screencasts-on-linux/

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  • I don't know what my -ad device needs to be, but it works without it when I use pavucontrol as per the link ... thanks ... How can I find out what my -ad device is? ... and perhaps more to the point, I don't see this -ad option in my man ffmpeg .. FFmpeg version SVN-r0.5.1-4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1.1
    – Peter.O
    Jun 15, 2011 at 4:20
  • -ad should only apply to alsa, with pulse audio you shouldn't need to set that (not 100% sure, since I don't use pulse audio).
    – Šimon Tóth
    Jun 15, 2011 at 6:58
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I recently became interested in screencasting, and stumbled upon http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/ at which they recommended installing gtk-recordMyDesktop. So I did, and tried it out and it worked, audio and all. My humble results at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rju2TEfG0Bo (includes audio). It may use your technique under the covers for all I know.

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I'm using debian, where the almost identical tool is avconv due license issue.

I use pulseaudio as input of this tool to record the audio an video together with the follow command:

avconv -y -f pulse -i default -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1440x900 -i :0.0+0,0 -acodec libmp3lame -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast out.avi

ffmpeg command should be used with almost any modification to the specified parameters.

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