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Video Capture of Computer Screens

Version 5.1 by Drunk Monkey on 2022-01-27 14:18
Contents
  1. Required Programs
  2. Installation
    1. Windows
    2. Mac OSX
  3. Video Capture

Required Programs

  1. VLC Media Player - required for playback of just about any kind of video content you can imagine
  2. 7-zip - you will need this to extract the contents of the FFmpeg files, which are stored as a 7z archive.  Mac OSX will use Keka
  3. FFmpeg - the ultimate Swiss Army Knife multitool of multimedia encoding/decoding

Installation

  1. VLC installs are straight forward.  Run the installer and you're done.
  2. FFmpeg is a bit more complicated, and it depends on your platform.

Windows

  1. Run the VLC installer
  2. Install 7-zip
  3. 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-20220127221835-1.png

 

Mac OSX

  1. Install VLC
  2. Install Keka

Video Capture