www/content/blog/commands/capture-desktop-video.md

---
title: "Capture a video of your desktop"
date: 2011-11-20
description: Capture a video of your desktop
tags:
  - ffmpeg
---

## The command

You can capture a video of your linux desktop very easily with ffmpeg :

```sh
ffmpeg -f x11grab -s xga -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq /tmp/out.mpg
```
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			`title: "Capture a video of your desktop"`
			`date: 2011-11-20`
First big articles reformatting now that I properly understand hugo 2021-03-11 19:47:26 +01:00			`description: Capture a video of your desktop`
			`tags:`
			`- ffmpeg`
Long overdue first commit with content 2020-04-28 17:29:52 +02:00			`---`

First big articles reformatting now that I properly understand hugo 2021-03-11 19:47:26 +01:00			`## The command`

			`You can capture a video of your linux desktop very easily with ffmpeg :`
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Long overdue first commit with content 2020-04-28 17:29:52 +02:00			`ffmpeg -f x11grab -s xga -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq /tmp/out.mpg`
Refactored syntax highlighting shortcodes into markdown 2023-04-23 22:33:49 +02:00			```