NAME¶
byzanz-record - record your desktop session to an animated GIF
SYNOPSIS¶
byzanz-record [
options]
FILENAME
DESCRIPTION¶
Byzanz records your desktop session to an animated GIF. You can record your
entire screen, a single window, or an arbitrary region.
byzanz-record
allows you to make recordings from the command line. Graphical users may want
to use the panel applet instead.
OPTIONS¶
Application Options:¶
- -d, --duration=SECS
- Duration of animation (default: 10 seconds)
- --delay=SECS
- Delay before start (default: 1 second)
- -c, --cursor
- Record mouse cursor
- -a, --audio
- Record audio from the default input device. This only works
if the output format supports it and will otherwise cause an error.
- -x, --x=PIXEL
- X coordinate of rectangle to record
- -y, --y=PIXEL
- Y coordinate of rectangle to record
- -w, --width=PIXEL
- Width of recording rectangle
- -h, --height=PIXEL
- Height of recording rectangle
- -v, --verbose
- Be verbose
- --display=DISPLAY
- X display to use
Help Options:¶
- -?, --help
- Show help options
- --help-gtk
- Show GTK+ Options
- --help-all
- Show all help options
OUTPUT FILE¶
After
byzanz-record is finished, the recording is written to FILENAME.
The format is determined by the filename extension. The following formats are
supported:
- gif
- Record to an animated GIF image. Use this if you want to
record a mostly static screen with a limited amount of colors, such as
using a file manager or an office application. This is the default and
will be used if an unrecognized extension is used.
- ogg, ogv
- Record to an Ogg Theora video. This format supports audio.
Use this if you want to record dynamic contents, such as video
playback.
- flv
- Record to a Flash Screen video. This recording method is
lossless. Use it if you want to postprocess the file in other
applications.
- byzanz
- Record to Byzanz' internal debugging format. This is useful
for benchmarking Byzanz or if you want to convert the recording to
multiple formats later. You can use byzanz-playback(1) to convert
the file.
SEE ALSO¶
byzanz-playback(1)
AUTHOR¶
Byzanz was written by Benjamin Otte <otte@gnome.org>.
This manual page was last updated for version 0.2.1.
