Capture Windows screen with ffmpeg

Use the built-in GDI screengrabber (no install needed) like this :

ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 10 -i desktop [output]

This will capture ALL your displays as one big contiguous display.

If you want to limit to a region, and show the area being grabbed:

ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate ntsc -offset_x 10 -offset_y 20 -video_size 640x480 \
-show_region 1 -i desktop [output]

To grab the contents of the window named “Calculator”:

ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 25 -i title=Calculator [output]

I found that framerate 10 suits screen capture well (you can change it).

I have encoded to both files and streaming outputs and it works quite well.

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