record-with-ffmpeg

Record your desktop audio, microphone and video in linux from terminal.

Features

• fully command line tool
• Different options for recording
  • Internal/monitor audio only
  • Microphone only
  • Both internal audio and microphone
  • Video only (without audio)
  • Video with internal audio
  • Video with microphone
  • Video with both internal audio and microphone

Dependencies

• pipewire-pulse or pulseaudio (any one)
• ffmpeg

Installation

1. Get the installation script in your system.

git clone https://github.com/whoisYoges/record-with-ffmpeg
cd record-with-ffmpeg/

2. Make necessary changes in record-with-ffmpeg

Changes need to be made in following variable fields.

• videodir (location to save the recorded videos)
• audiodir (location to save the recorded audio)
• recordingresolution (resolution of your monitor or specific area of monitor you want to record)
• outputresolution (output video resolution (recommended <= recordingresolution))
• fps (required video output fps)
• cfr (Constant Rate factor (know more about crf))

Get following audio input sources using pactl list sources command under Name section in terminal.

• monitoraudioinput (internal/system/monitor audio)
• microphoneaudioinput (external/microphone audio)

Also check audiochannel and audiofrequency value using pactl list sources command under Sample Specification section

for eg: if output has:: Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz then audiochannel is 2 (i.e, audio channel) and audiofrequency is 44100 (i.e, audio rate/frequency)

• monitoraudiochannel (number of audio channel of builtin/monitor audio source)
• microphoneaudiochannel (number of audio channel of microphone)
• monitoraudiofrequency (audio frequency of builtin/monitor)
• microphoneaudiofrequency (audio frequency of microphone)
• outputaudiofrequency (output audio frequency (recommended: smaller among audio inputs))

3. Place it in the path.

chmod +x record-with-ffmpeg
sudo mv record-with-ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/
cd ../
rm -r record-with-ffmpeg

Uninstallation

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/record-with-ffmpeg