Commands by Vosaxalo (3)

  • Screencast of your PC Display with webm output

    Since ffmpeg on Ubuntu is deprecated, now there is avconv. Please note that the screen area here is set with a predefined format "-s wxga" that is corresponding to "-s 1366x768") There is also the option to add a title in the metadata of the resulting video.


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    avconv -v warning -f alsa -ac 2 -i default -f x11grab -r 15 -s wxga -i :0.0 -acodec libvorbis -ab 320k -vcodec libvpx -qmax 2 -qmin 1 -threads auto -y -metadata title="Title here" ~/Video/AVCONV_REG.webm
    Vosaxalo · 2012-12-14 13:34:07 5
  • Screencast of your PC Display with mp4 output

    Since ffmpeg on Ubuntu is deprecated, now there is avconv. Please note that the screen area here is set with a predefined format "-s wxga" that is corresponding to "-s 1366x768") There is also the option to add a title in the metadata of the resulting video.


    2
    avconv -v warning -f alsa -i default -f x11grab -r 15 -s wxga -i :0.0 -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast -threads auto -y -metadata title="Title here" ~/Video/AVCONV_REG.mp4
    Vosaxalo · 2012-12-14 13:30:11 6
  • CPU architecture details

    This command list all CPU technical infos. Show Sample Output


    7
    lscpu
    Vosaxalo · 2010-09-18 08:51:12 48

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