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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>
Cc: "help-guix\\@gnu.org" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ffmpeg and alsa/pulseaudio
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 21:34:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200529013434.GH5443@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Z5nFDp9Mv6ZCyg7aLsE_XJhm-FQEXr1DEq3TjcEJKxaN9IHgO-Ew9XI2mbmXGu9_mXjMVzZzDHoSAVG9M1VRe0PfTOr_9MEDt8dWYbBWQcM=@elenq.tech>

On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 11:54:35AM +0000, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to make a screencast with ffmpeg and I'm having issues.
> 
> I had a screen recording script on the past, based on alsa, but it's not working in guix because it looks like ffmpeg wasn't compiled with alsa. Is that true? Is there something I missing to activate alsa on ffmpeg?
> 
> 
> This is the command I was running:
> 
> ffmpeg \
>     -y -f x11grab -draw_mouse 1 -framerate 25 -video_size 1920x1080 -i $DISPLAY \
>     -f alsa -ac 2 -i default \
>     -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:v libx264 -preset veryfast \
>     -c:a libmp3lame -q:v 1 -s 1920x1080 -f matroska \
>     output.mkv

I tried this but it failed with ":0: Invalid argument". That's the
$DISPLAY variable. Do you know what it should say?


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-29  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-07 11:54 ffmpeg and alsa/pulseaudio Ekaitz Zarraga
2020-05-29  1:34 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2020-05-29  8:31   ` Ekaitz Zarraga

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