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From version 25.1
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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:[[image:image-20220127221835-1.png]](((
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]](((
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27 27  The contents of the ffmpeg filder should look like this:
28 28  [[image:image-20220127225738-2.png]]
29 29  \\Select all the files and move them into the installation directory.  That is C:\Local\ffmpeg\ in this example.
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58 58  [[image:image-20220127232635-16.png]]
59 59  \\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
60 60  [[image:image-20220127232731-17.png]]
61 -\\You are now ready to capture video
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64 64  (% class="col-xs-12 col-xs-6" %)
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74 74  
75 75  == Video Capture ==
76 76  
77 77  ----
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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 -
103 -If you want to save the for long term storage, you can losslessly compress the file even further with the following command
104 -
105 ->(% style="font-size:14px" %)fmpeg -i screenCapture.mkv -c:v libx264rgb -crf 0 -preset veryslow screenCaptureS.mkv
106 -
107 -It'll take a while, but it will create a video file that should be less than half the size of the original.
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110 -(% class="col-xs-12 col-xs-6" %)
111 -(((
112 -=== Mac Video Capture ===
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