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--- wiki:screencasttutorial [2011/12/15 14:08] – 151.29.137.72
+++ wiki:screencasttutorial [2013/06/02 15:45] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
 TIME=`date +%Hh%M`
-export DISPLAY=:2.0
 # Start screencast
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 jack_capture by default captures all the audio that is connected to system:ouput. If you want to be able to manually make connections to jack_capture with jack_connect, qjackctl or whatever, you have to pass it the -mc option (you need at least version 0.9.58 for this)
-===== optional Xephyr script  =====
+===== Optional Xephyr script  =====
 Set up a Xephyr nested X server with a resolution of 1280x720 as this resolution yields the best result when uploading the final video to a webservice like YouTube. I use a little script for this:
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 TODO:other distros
-After you ran this Xephyr script, you should run the above screencast script, taking care of changing the -i 0:0 ffmpeg option to -i :2 and eventually adding the -display 0:0 option to the xterm line (so it won't appear in your screencast)
+After you ran this Xephyr script, you should run the above screencast script, taking care of making the following changes to it:
+  * add the line "export DISPLAY=:2.0" after the TIME line.
+  * change -i 0:0 ffmpeg option to -i :2.
+  * add the -display 0:0 option to the xterm line (so it won't appear in your screencast).
 Within the Xephyr session I also use a [[http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Basic?content=126559|plain cursor theme without drop shadow]] because ffmpeg doesn't capture the drop shadow properly. As of [[http://git.ffmpeg.org/?p=ffmpeg;a=commit;h=191a50db964768ca4418bdf00b26159a77879b9c|FFmpeg revision 25690]] this has been fixed.