

Options: Choose Show Mouse Clicks in Recording if you want your clicks to appear as a circle during your screen recording.

Choose Built-in Microphone to record your screen with sound.

You can use it to record your computer screen. How to Screen Record on iPhone and iPadĪpple pre-installed QuickTime Player, an app that lets you record, edit, play, and share audio and video files onto every Mac.Use the links below for quick navigation to each section. I'm using a 2013-mid MBP with MacOS sierra, also brew installed ffmpeg 3.1.1.Fortunately, we’ve put together a quick and easy guide for recording your computer screen on a Mac, Windows PC, iPhone, iPad, and Android. Also I set pixel format to yuv420p, otherwise the default yuv422p color space cannot be played by quicktime: ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i "1" -pix_fmt yuv420p -r 25 -t 5 out.mov Specify a shorter timebaseĪnd the output video stream fps will be 1000k, which is unreasonable. If duration is too long,įile may not be playable by quicktime. Use -pix_fmt yuv420p for compatibility with outdated media players. No pixel format specified, yuv422p for H.264 encoding chosen. Please consider specifying a lower framerate, a different muxer or -vsync 2 You'll probably see some warnings: Frame rate very high for a muxer not efficiently supporting it.

If recording screen with no other options like this: ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i "1" out.mov I guess most of the time we'll ignore the program warnings, but not this one. UPDATE: I've tried this on an older OS (Yosemite) and got the same results (thought it might be the new OS that broke it). It just says "The document could not be opened". If someone can solve that riddle, my next question is how can I watch the newly created file in quicktime (I'm thinking I'll need to encode or decode or something) because even the FaceTime video file would not open in QuickTime. I've tried this same command but using device 0 (FaceTime camera) and it stops after 5 seconds. Ctl-C doesn't work either, and I am left with force quitting via Activity Monitor. In fact, I can't even stop the recording as it suggests by pressing 'q'. It creates an mov file in the working directory but doesn't stop after 5 seconds. I don't need audio so I start my 5 second screen recording via: ffmpeg -f avfoundation -t '5' -i '1' test.mov Which returns: AVFoundation video devices: I list my devices via: ffmpeg -f avfoundation -list_devices true -i "" I'm on a Mac with MacOS Sierra installed.
