Questions tagged [recording]
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Create virtual display output device or new X display for recording fullscreen desktop application
I'd like to create a virtual display which emulates a hardware monitor. For example, I'd like to be able to move application windows to this "monitor", record on the "monitor", etc....
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Lossless ffmpeg recordings with low resource usage
I'm trying to record lossless videos with ffmpeg of
My screen
My computer audio
My microphone audio
using this script:
MIC="alsa_input.usb-Logitech_Logitech_USB_Headset-00.mono-fallback"
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Is it possible to record radio using headphones?
Disclaimer 1: I'm programmer, not a hardware expert, maybe – I just don't know – is the question completely stupid.
Disclaimer 2: I'm not a english native.
With my MP3-Player I can record radio (in ...
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Recordings come out glitchy
I usually record my computer screen to give tech support or share something, however I found that my recordings have been coming out super glitchy. Windows cut diagonally revelaing the desktop even if ...
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Setting the default pulseaudio capture source to “monitor” via command-line
I want to do this from commandline:
What I've done so far is to create a ~/.asoundrc file with the following contents:
pcm.pulse_monitor {
type pulse
device alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-...
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How can one record mic audio straight to a FLAC file?
Months ago I would occasionally record little snippets of audio as FLAC files using ffmpeg and ALSA. I used a command that looked more or less like this:
ffmpeg -f alsa -ar 48000 -ac 1 -acodec flac -...
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How to show keyboard hits while recording with kazam?
Looking to make some demonstrations or tutorials, I am able to record the screen "easily" with kazam. However, even if the mouse pointer is recorded, keyboard shortcuts are not.
For some software, ...
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How to use an handheld device with GNU/Linux and YouTube to protect from death threats?
Suppose you fear you could meet someone who will threaten you with death.
Assuming the bad guy won't destroy your handheld (for example an Ubuntu Touch device) on sight, a barely decent form of ...
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How do I record video from my MacBook Air's webcam?
I recently installed Linux Mint on my MacBook Air, and I would like to record video from it's built in camera. It seems that the drivers are not installed, since guvcview gives an error when I try to ...
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Using PulseAudio to pipe audio from multiple applications into separate files in parallel
I would like to redirect the audio output of multiple applications to multiple files in parallel on Ubuntu. For example, if I have two instances of Chrome running in the background at the same time, I ...
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Program for constantly recording audio of the past 24 hours
I want a program to continuously record the audio of my microphone for the past 24 hours (like a surveillance system) so I can have the audio of the past 24 hours.
Is there a progeny for doing this?
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How to record the lock screen and other users sessions?
After I log in to my Linux session I start recording my screen with the command
recordmydesktop --fps 2 --no-sound --on-the-fly-encoding --compress-cache --no-frame --v_quality 10
But when I to go ...
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Recording screen on openSUSE Tumbleweed leads to black screen
I want to record my screen in openSUSE Tumbleweed, but it always fails. I've tried four recorders (listed below), but my video always results in a black video. The only thing that can be seen is the ...
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Is there a tool that will let me listen to segments of a single audio file while it is still recording
This project encompasses accomplishing the following goals:
Record the professor.
Listen to past segments of recording while recording is still adding new segments.
I apologise if this is obscure. I'...
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How to use asciinema offline?
How can I record and play asciinema screen recordings in a LAN without internet connection?
The tool uploads the recordings per default to the asciinema website but I want to keep it local and run ...
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ALSA mono configuration not working
I installed a new PCI based soundcard in my PC. It has 8 S/PDIF based I/O pairs with each line numbered 1 to 8 for input as well as output. And I'm trying to use input lines 3, 5, 7 for input (mics) ...
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Using and configuring ALSA plugins dmix and dsnoop for stereo play and capture
I installed a new PCI based soundcard in my PC. It has 8 S/PDIF based I/O pairs with each line numbered 1 to 8 for input as well as output. And I'm trying to use lines 3-8 for input (mics) and 3-8 for ...
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record screen and internal audio with ffmpeg
What is the ffmpeg command to record screen and internal audio (on Ubuntu 18.04)?
I'll omit the many things I tried that did not work and skip to the something close to what I am looking for;
V="$(...
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record audio on Linux - stop generating output automatically
I am using pulseaudio, but I don't really understand it.
I am recording the audio stream from a video playing in my browser. If I use module-combine-sink, I can record the monitor stream as well as ...
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Easiest way to record mic and line in simultaneosly and without pain?
I'm using Arch Linux with alsa, pulseaudio, pavucontrol, jack, and whatever else. I want to record a microphone and a guitar simultaneously no matter how low level I should get.
There are several ...
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ffmpeg “moov atom not found” when merging MP4 & MKV
I am trying to merge an MP4 file (which contains only video), with a MKV file (which contains only audio). I am using this command:
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i audio.mkv -c copy output.mp4
But I am ...
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X Window / VNC session recording
While I am aware of rfbproxy and ffmpeg's x11grab capability, all the examples online seem to be aimed at users wanting to record their own sessions. My usage model is to maintain a (reasonably) ...
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What are several different and alternative methods to backup the audio levels in linux?
The audio recording levels can be saved for Ubuntu / Debian users using a command from the package alsa-mixer,
alsactl --file ~/filename store
However I am looking for alternative ways to save and ...
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Capturing remote VNC to x264 without storing first
I'm looking for a way to capture a remote VNC display into a local h.264 recording without having to record first in another format and then convert it after the fact. I'd see that it's is possible to ...
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Uploading a webcam stream via ftp in realtime
So here's the situation. I'm trying to build a watching program for my linux box with an inbuilt webcam, that starts recording when motion is detected, and uploads the recording to my domain.
Motion ...
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Growisofs renaming files
I was trying to copy several files to a dvd with growisofs. The command I use it is:
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /media/34GB/tmp/
But when I send it to command line, I receive this message
I: -...
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streamer not recording audio
I am trying to record a video from my webcam with streamer, this is my command:
streamer -t 1:0:0 -c /dev/video0 -f rgb24 -r 5 -o outfile.avi
Unfortunately this is not recording any audio, which ...
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'Device or resource busy' error thrown when trying to record audio using arecord
I'm trying to record audio that is being played on separate channels using arecord. I do this by executing the following command in separate threads in a python script:
arecord -D plug:"+str(in_id)+" ...
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Why does Debian records in 1080p and Ubuntu record in 720p
Last year I was using Debian Jessie 8 as my main linux os and I used to record my screen with Record My Desktop the resolution of the video rendered as 1080p but recently I have switched to Ubuntu 16....
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Creating a timelapse with guvcview
Is there a way to create a timelapse video (or similar) with guvcview?
I'm using an external (USB) camera and ordinary footage seems to very quickly fill a hard drive.
Can I get it to record an ...
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Record keystrokes through ssh and be able to replay them
I've been working on a small script today for our minimal server here where I can log into our inventory software, download the csv and put it into the web directory using a cron job periodically.
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Kali Linux screen recorder
I want kali linux default screen recorder on my Ubuntu but don't know the name since I do not have the kali linux. The unique property which make me fall in love with it was the icon on the top panel ...
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Mic records sound twice as fast
I've a webcam with a built-in microphone. When I record sound with eg. arecord, it says I've recorded eg. 6 seconds of sound, but when I try to play it with eg. aplay, it says I've only recorded 3 ...
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Linux Mint - Glitch in Screen Recording video files
I am new to Linux, and most things seem to work fine; but it is not the case of Screen Recording. I have tried with the following programs:
OBS Studio
Voko Screen
Kazam
And I have tried with the ...
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Change default sampling input rate for ALSA
I am working on Jasper project on Raspberry pi for voice recognition. The problem is that there is a lot of crackling noise when I record with the default settings. After tinkering with arecord, I ...
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Programmatically redirect audio output of specific program to file
I would like to redirect the audio output of a program to file, on the command line, like in
$ redirect-wrapper file.wav my-program
so that
I don't hear the output of the program, i.e. the output ...
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Understanding scriptreplay timing file
I am trying to understand the timing files produced by the script command (which are supposed to be read by scriptreplay while running typescript files). The timing file is always made of two columns, ...
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Alsa capturing mono microphone as right channel of stereo
The laptop microphone is mono but audio seems to get captured as stereo.
The resulting recording has the sounds captured by the mic in the right channel and for some reason whatever sound is currently ...
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recordMyDesktop can't use jackd for audio
If I try to have recordMyDesktop (technically qt-recordMyDesktop) capture audio via jackd, when I hit record it immediately stops with the message:
recordMyDesktop has exited with status: 4352
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Linux sound: play back audio from input only on specific output device
I currently have a shairport (AirPlay) server which receives audio data and outputs it over optical SP/DIF (Toslink) via a USB-to-Toslink adapter.
This digital signal goes through an equalizer, and ...
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Execute command inside another command
I'm trying to record my tmux session.
I've got an alias record-session which executes command from ttygif ttyrec ~/ttygif/files/last-session. As far as I understand ttygif starts new terminal instance ...
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“Replay” feature (repeat / rewind)
This occurred to me playing some games where there is no live rewind feature.
Basically what I'm looking for is an application which records the screen, and - when pressing a shortcut - rewinds what ...
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Record/Capture desktop for specific time period
I use gtk-recordmydesktop and/or recordmydesktop to record my desktop and create screen-casts.
I need to record my desktop for a given period of time, let's say 1 hour, so that I can record stuff ...
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Treat USB Sound card mic input as line input
I have a Creative Labs Sounds Blaster Play (SB1140) USB Sound card. When I plug it into either a Windows or Mac computer, I am able to record line level audio through the Mic jack - clean and clear.
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Record video from camera and get frame number on demand
I'm using avconv at the moment to store the input of my camera as an video. This works fine. Now i'm asking myself if it is possible to get the current frame number at a particular time of the video ...
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Issues with arecord command: Channels count non available
I'm having some mixed results with the arecord command in the terminal. The hardware I'm using consists of the Cirrus Audio Card for the Raspberry Pi. I'm trying to record a 24-bit 192kHz sound (from ...
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Is there any app that records notes with synchronized Audio?
Is there any application that it records audio and you take notes. After recording you can play the audio that was recorded when a specific text was written. There are apps that does this for other OS ...
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How to record video from an old webcam using ffmpeg on Linux?
After couple of hours I'm finally ready to accept my absolute lack of knowledge in that topic and decided to post this question here.
I've been trying to record video from an old external USB webcam (...
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Cannot remember the name of a CLI recorder software
I stumbled across a useful command line recorder that allows the user to copy the text when watching the 'recording'. I just cannot remember the name of the project. I just remember you can play and ...
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Capture timestamped X mouse events, and render a video with custom mouse pointer?
I am typically using recordmydesktop to record some application interaction; however, on my system, recordmydesktop always shows the same mouse pointer/cursor (the arrow) - regardless if, in reality, ...
