Screencasting with JACK [SOLVED!]

["J. Liles" <malnourite@xxxxxxxxx>]

As some of you may recall, every time I've posted a demo video to LAD, I've had to include a disclaimer excusing the poor quality due to a lack of functional screencasting tools.

Well, it took a couple of weeks of hair pulling and many, many hours of testing, but I finally arrived at a solution.

Anyone who wants to create a screencast and record audio via JACK *in perfect sync* must do the following:

Get ffmpeg. Apply this patch to it:

https://github.com/original-male/FFmpeg/commit/d02509d04d396a98646ca81e9ba327a501486130.patch

Build it with vorbis and h264 support.

Then, start your favorite desktop environment. I use Xephyr for this.

Have jack running (at -r 48000)

Then run the following command:

ffmpeg -fflags +genpts+igndts -f x11grab -vsync 0 -r 30 -s 1920x1080 -i :${DISPLAY}.+0,0 -vcodec h264 -f jack -ac 2 -r:a 48000  -i screencast -acodec pcm_s16le -r:v 30 -vsync 2 -async 1 -map 0:0,1,0 -map 1:0 -preset ultrafast -qp 0 "$FILE"

Where DISPLAY is the number of your X11 display and FILE is the filename for the screencast. I use a .mkv extension for the matroska container.

Remember to connect the streams you want recorded to the 'screencast' JACK inputs!

With this setup I'm able to record a full 30 FPS @ 1080P with audio in perfect sync. Please share your results too. With some more evidence I might have a good case to get ffmpeg to accept my patch.

Enjoy!

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