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From version 22.1
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24 24  1. Run the VLC installer
25 25  1. Install 7-zip
26 -1. Extract the contents of the FFmpeg zip file into a suitable directory.  I going to use C:\Local\ffmpeg\ as my FFmpeg installation location for this example.  You should see something similar to this:
27 -[[image:image-20220127221835-1.png]](((
28 -
26 +1. Extract the contents of the FFmpeg zip file into a suitable directory.  I going to use C:\Local\ffmpeg\ as my FFmpeg installation location for this example.  You should see something similar to this:[[image:image-20220127221835-1.png]](((
29 29  The contents of the ffmpeg filder should look like this:
30 30  [[image:image-20220127225738-2.png]]
31 31  \\Select all the files and move them into the installation directory.  That is C:\Local\ffmpeg\ in this example.
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60 60  [[image:image-20220127232635-16.png]]
61 61  \\If you get an error like this, either you typed in the command incorrectly (as I did in the following example) or you did not configured your user path correctly and you have to go back and correct it
62 62  [[image:image-20220127232731-17.png]]
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64 -1.
65 -
66 -In newer
61 +\\You are now ready to capture video
67 67  )))
68 68  
69 69  (% class="col-xs-12 col-xs-6" %)
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75 75  )))
76 76  )))
77 77  
73 +----
78 78  
79 -== Video Capture ==
75 +section break here
80 80  
81 81  ----
78 +
79 +(% class="row" %)
80 +(((
81 +(% class="col-xs-12 col-xs-6" style="border-right:black solid 1px;" %)
82 +(((
83 +== Windows Video Capture ==
84 +
85 +Open a command window, and run the following commands:
86 +
87 +>(% style="font-size:14px" %)cd Desktop
88 +>(% style="font-size:14px" %)ffmpeg -f gdigrab -t 6 -draw_mouse 1 -framerate 60 -i desktop -c:v libx264rgb -crf 0 -preset ultrafast screenCapture.mkv
89 +
90 +(% style="font-size:14px" %)This will create a video file called "screenCapture.mkv" on your desktop that you can replay using VLC Media Player.
91 +
92 +(% style="font-size:14px" %)The parameters to the ffmpeg command have the following meaning
93 +
94 +(% class="min" %)
95 +|-f gdigrab|gdigrab is the windows framebuffer, where the screen is stored
96 +|-t 6|capture 6 seconds of video and exit.  3600 = 1 hour, 14400 = 4 hours
97 +|-draw_mouse 1|capture the mouse pointer
98 +|-i desktop|capture the entire desktop -  remember to maximize your window
99 +|-c:v libx264rgb|this video encoder will preserve the rgb color values losslessly
100 +|-crf 0|lossless compression
101 +|-preset ultrafast|save the data as quickly as possible, don't waste too much time compressing the data
102 +)))
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104 +(% class="col-xs-12 col-xs-6" %)
105 +(((
106 +== Mac Video Capture ==
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108 +