Recording the screen (terminal) on Ubuntu 14.04 server

[J]

On Friday, October 28, 2016, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Is there a way to Record the screen (in fact, it is console) to video
> clip on Ububtu 14.04 server ?
>
> This is a server, I don't have Xwindows on it. And I want to record
> the commands + responses I see on screen into
> video, for a demo. I tried with building ffmpeg from sources, and when I
> run
> ffmpeg -video_size 1024x768 -framerate 25 -f x11grab -i :0.0+100,200
> -f alsa -ac 2 -i hw:0 output.mkv
> I get:
> ffmpeg version 3.2 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
>   built with gcc 4.9.2 (Ubuntu 4.9.2-10ubuntu13)
>   configuration: --disable-yasm
>   libavutil      55. 34.100 / 55. 34.100
>   libavcodec     57. 64.100 / 57. 64.100
>   libavformat    57. 56.100 / 57. 56.100
>   libavdevice    57.  1.100 / 57.  1.100
>   libavfilter     6. 65.100 /  6. 65.100
>   libswscale      4.  2.100 /  4.  2.100
>   libswresample   2.  3.100 /  2.  3.100
> Unknown input format: 'x11grab'
>
>
> I had built ffmpeg thus:
> ./configure  --enable-x11grab --enable-gpl  --disable-yasm
> And I am following this website (though it talks about desktop, not a
> server):
> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop
>
> So my questions are:
>
> 1) Is there a different tool for that on Ubuntu 14.04 ?
> 2) Is there a solution to this Unknown input format: 'x11grab'  ?


What's wrong with SSHing to the server from a desktop and recording the
terminal from there? Thats how I record server console sessions.  Unless
what your doing can't be done in a SSH session for some reason.


>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
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