[LAU] screencasting with xephyr - wiki page

Jeremy Jongepier jeremy at autostatic.com
Thu Dec 15 11:59:52 UTC 2011


On 12/15/11 12:45, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> I know I'm not trying to express a popular opinion, but what's the
> benefit of using Xephyr when you can just record a particular part of
> a screen?
>
> Alexandre Prokoudine
> http://libregraphicsworld.org

Hello Alexandre,

I'm the author of that article and your question actually raises doubts 
here why one would need Xephyr for this. The -s setting of ffmpeg should 
suffice and by omitting the -i option it should start recording your 
current display if I'm correct. I think the main reason why I do it this 
way is because like this I have a separate display (shown in a separate 
window) with the session I want to record and I can start and stop 
recording this session from another display.

Best,

Jeremy




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