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Revision as of 11:24, 17 December 2008

Module: screen
Type Access
First VLC version -
Last VLC version -
Operating system(s) all
Description screen capture
Shortcut(s) -

Stream or save a video of your computer screen.

Options

  • screen-caching <integer> : Time in milliseconds
  • screen-fps <integer> : Capture frames per second default value: 0
  • screen-fragment-size <integer> : (Windows only) Optimize the capture by fragmenting the screen in chunks of predefined height (16 might be a good value, and 0 means disabled) default value: 0
  • screen-top <integer> : The top edge coordinate of the subscreen. (New in VLC 0.9.0 on x11, New in VLC 1.0.0 on Windows) default value: 0
  • screen-left <integer> : The left edge coordinate of the subscreen. (New in VLC 0.9.0 on x11, New in VLC 1.0.0 on Windows) default value: 0
  • screen-width <integer> : The width of the subscreen. (New in VLC 0.9.0 on x11, New in VLC 1.0.0 on Windows) default value: <full screen width>
  • screen-height <integer> : The height of the subscreen. (New in VLC 0.9.0 on x11, New in VLC 1.0.0 on Windows) default value: <full screen height>
  • screen-follow-mouse, no-screen-follow-mouse : Follow the mouse when capturing a subscreen. (New in VLC 0.9.0 on x11, New in VLC 1.0.0 on Windows) default value: no-screen-follow-mouse
  • screen-mouse-image <filename> : Mouse pointer image to use. If specified, the pointer will be overlayed on the captured video. (New in VLC 1.0.0, Windows and x11 only) default value: ""

Run...

% vlc -H

...for the definitive options for your version.

Example

Capture a screen:

% vlc screen:// --screen-fps=1 --screen-width=100 --screen-height=100

The screen thus captured is 100x100 pixels in from the top left corner of the active screen.

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