Recording from line-in with Audacity on Linux Mint 12.

I have my mobile telephone connected with a male-male 3.5mm cable to my computer and I wanted to record segments from the radio to the computer with Audacity. This is how I achieved that. And also configuring the alsamixer settings properly to enable the line-in port as the capture source will help with this. This … Read more

Record a window in Ubuntu easily with the OBS studio application. This is very easy.

Recording a window with OBS is very easy, this allows easy streaming and recording of gameplay or a video window. The screenshot above shows an OBS studio window displaying a video window, you select the window by double-clicking the Window Capture (Xcomposite) 2 option. This brings up another dialogue to select any open window on … Read more

An example of recording TV with MPV on Linux.

This is a sample command, I used this to record TV with MPV from a stream. This is quite problematic, but I managed to get this working on the example stream. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ mpv https://c.mjh.nz/101002210221/ –stream-record=tv1.ts –demuxer-lavf-probe-info=yes [ffmpeg] hls demuxer: Can’t support the subtitle(uri: hdntl=exp=1607128378~acl=%2f*~data=hdntl~hmac=a731c5d7a64c0589edb0290b2e2f44e9c48f2dbb1cf2f564d3d0914ee3341922/index_7_0.m3u8) Video –vid=1 ‘bitrate 1910576’ (h264 1024×576 25.000fps) Video … Read more

How to record PC sound to a file with ffmpeg and Pulseaudio.

Recording sound from your computer to a file is pretty easy with Pulseaudio. Assuming you know what device you are using to listen to audio, then it may be selected and recorded from. Use this command to find the device name. ~$ pacmd list-sources~$ pacmd list-sources Then you may get the device string. alsa_output.usb-Cosair_Corsair_VOID_PRO_Surround_USB_Adapter_00000000-00.analog-stereo.monitoralsa_output.usb-Cosair_Corsair_VOID_PRO_Surround_USB_Adapter_00000000-00.analog-stereo.monitor Make … Read more

A recording of my Linux Mint 16 MATE desktop.

How I recorded this video. avconv -f x11grab -r 60 -s 1920×1080 -i :0.0 -vcodec libvpx -b:v 1M output.webmavconv -f x11grab -r 60 -s 1920×1080 -i :0.0 -vcodec libvpx -b:v 1M output.webm Use this command to install avconv. sudo apt-get install libav-toolssudo apt-get install libav-tools This is a very good way to show off your … Read more