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You cannot select one screen, but you can select a subsection.

Ok. How do I select a subsection? Like a region capture? How do I do this?

Trying to get stream my screen, and for now I'm getting it to stream to a file till I can get it to stream to Twitch. When I stream to a file, it's capturing my entire desktop, both monitors. I can't find documentation on how to modify or what options I can add to only capture the one desktop. Using...

You should be more precise about what you exactly want to do. Streaming as such does not use much of CPU, actually pure streaming (and to record a stream on a file) requires very little CPU and works even on very old computers (e.g. PIII etc.). The CPU is mainly used for decoding/encoding or transc...

I am currently using FFMPEG to stream to Twitch. I have been told that VLC is an alternative to streaming, and would like to give it a shot (FFMPEG eats up way too much CPU imo). Is there an uptodate guide for Linux (ubuntu 12.04) that I can follow to get started streaming with VLC? I'm a linux novi...