mouse pointer capture not working in vlc screen capture

[tech_enc24]

Hello All,

I am using following command to capture PC screen and stream it to other PC :
vlc screen:// :screen-fps=5 :screen-caching=100
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=768,fps=5,scale=1,width=1024,height=768,acodec=none}:rtp{dst=192.168.1.12,port=5555}

Screen capture is working fine but I am not seeing the mouse pointer in the stream capture at the remote PC.
What option should I include in the command to turn on mouse pointer capture?

Thanks.

[VLC_help]

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--screen-mouse-image=<string> Mouse pointer image If specifed, will use the image to draw the mouse pointer on the capture.

http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help

[tech_enc24]

Thanks a lot.
But I didn't observe this problem on Mac. So on windows VLC will always use specified pointer image which won't be the same
as set on my PC (could be an animated pointer). Is this a limitation only on windows with the workaround to specify icon image?

[banishmemory]

It doesn't work in XP x32 vlc 2.03
I've tried with with png and jpg files, but the cursor did not appear.
Help?!

[dodger]

Hi there,

I had the same problem when I tried to capture my desktop under Linux Mint, the mouse cursor was not recorded (like in your video). After lots of searching in the internet, it seems that VLC doesn't support recording of the mouse cursor.

So I've written a smal tool that shows another mouse cursor at the position of the normal cursor. This additional cursor is seen by VLC and therefore recorded.

Grab it from: http://dodger-tools.sourceforge.net/cms ... =100000201

[ChameleonScales]

Hi, I'm trying to display the cursor on VLC 2.2.2 and Linux Mint 18 but none of the following approaches seem to work.

• I tried adding the following line in "Edit options" :

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  :screen-mouse-image=file:///home/caetano/Pictures/arrow.png
• I also tried to enable "Follow the mouse" as shown on the image below (although I don't have any option to browse and find an image).
  
  

I doubt combining the 2 would help.
Any ideas ?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Wrong forum and this is a known issue: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2978

[ChameleonScales]

Oops, sorry I didn't see the Windows category of this topic. I created a new one here.