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Glad it's working for you. I posted a response earlier, but I don't see it on the forum? Thanks for posting the follow-up.

How embarrassing! I came back to this to refresh my knowledge of how to do the screen capture and it didn't work! changing the -- in the above to : makes it work. So --screen-left=0 becomes :screen-left=0, etc. Hope this makes things clearer!

There was another possible conclusion that occurred to me after my last posting. Maybe the 16:9 aspect ratio is magic?! And indeed it is! If the arguments --screen-left=0 --screen-top=0 --screen-width=1280 --screen-height=720 are included after :screen-fps=5.000000, then the cursor is properly captu...

Suspecting this might be a problem unique to at least a few laptops, I tried out screen capture on a desktop system using the same batch file. The desktop runs exactly the same version of W7, is a 64 bit system, etc. The screen resolution is 1600x900. Same cursor file, same file locations, same batc...

Sorry, I'm still a bit clumsy with youtube. Doh! Should be public now.



Hopefully, the above will share my cursor. If not, look here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o8ps1cmgcn1d2rw/blcurs.png

Thanks again for your efforts!

Here's a video of what my video captures look like showing the cursor (I used a large blue arrow so it's easy to see) shearing. Hopefully, someone will figure this out. http://youtu.be/94br2rO74vA A common denominator *may* be that we that are having this problem are on laptops (I think we both are ...

Again, thanks for the quick, helpful and thorough reply.

I will try exactly your batch file, but I want to clarify yet another detail. From your path to vlc, I take it you have installed vlc on your system, as opposed to running the 7zip version? That might make a difference; I'll try it.

Thank you very much for the clear, detailed reply. It is great to know that these settings work for you with Windows 7. That gives me hope! I still don't have it working on my system, but I hope that just a few details will do the job. First, how do you run vlc? Are you running from the command line...

Love the arrow. Now if it would just show up in my screen capture! But here is what I put in for the path to the cursor (same as in my previous efforts): :screen-mouse-image=file:///C:/Shared/Downloads/cursor.png Works the same. Tried in 2.06 and 2.07. NO CURSOR! So that was specified exactly as you...

My current conclusion: Using the mouse cursor for my system setup (described above) does not work. I will find another way to do what I need to do.

If anyone can offer any *tested* suggestions I will gladly try them.

Using the settings I listed above, I now capture consistently. I have even tried an alternate cursor I down loaded as a png. Works the same. The cursor shows up as a "streak" or "trace" across the screen. It is as though it were being rasterized out of sync. There is a thin slice...

My perception that playback is faster than real time is incorrect! Playback speed matches capture time exactly. (by stopwatch).

Sorry for bogus observation.

So here's where I am: - I configured the H264 default codec. Defaults were 0 for all settings. Now the fps is 25, bitrate is 3000kbps and scale is 1. Not sure what all of this means. - Using string from video to specify the mouse cursor. - Vlc must be a small window, not full screen. - Still using 2...

Trying vlc 2.06: Captures just fine without the mouse cursor specification. With the mouse cursor string (from the video), it crashes every time and does not appear to use the cursor? So here are the variables: - I'm using 64bit W7. Does that matter? - I'm using the 7zip version, not the installed v...

Thanks again for your prompt reply. The problem is that the information is conflicting. At different formats are given for file names and I have no idea which to use. The video is for 2.03 on XP. How different is it? I don't know. I can't get the mouse pointer file cited in the video directly. So I ...

Thanks for the prompt reply. The *key* point that made capture work at all for me is that using a frame rate of 1.00 (the default) does not appear to work. Following a few hints in other postings and a few youtube examples, I raised the frame rate to 6 and things worked! I have seen numbers from 10 ...

I'm a long-time user of vlc for video play back and it's great! Recently, I've had need to record some captures of my screen for instructional videos. After poking around the internet, I discovered that my old friend vlc could so this. After googling for some instructions, I spent some time with an ...