Last Updated on October 18, 2022
xvidcap is a tool that captures movement on an X11 display for illustration or documentation purposes.
It works in two distinct modes: In single-frame capture mode xvidcap takes a configurable number of screenshots per second and saves them to individual files. In multi-frame capture mode xvidcap also takes a number of screenshots per second, but encodes them to a single video in real time. Audio capture is only available with multi-frame formats.
This software is intended to be a standards-based alternative to tools like Lotus ScreenCam and Camtasia.
On-line encoding is done through FFMPEG and also allows for audio grabbing on OSS compatible systems.
Features include:
- Save videos in MPEG or AVI format.
- Support for direct VOB creation, Flash Screen Video.
- Capture single frames, or encode captured frames to a video.
- Capture the mouse pointer.
- Record audio and video.
- Capture OpenGL accelerated graphics.
- Capture a running video (hardware acceleration on the graphics adapter needs to be disabled).
- On-line encoding with FFmpeg libavcodec / libavformat.
- On-the-fly frame size reduction.
- Choose the number of frames to be captured per second.
- Specify the geometry.
- Dbus remote control application.
Website: xvidcap.sourceforge.net
Support:
Developer: Karl Beckers
License: GNU GPL
xvidcap is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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