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Here the mouse pointer included, dummy interface DOS box suppressed. "c:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" screen:// --one-instance -I dummy --dummy-quiet --screen-follow-mouse --screen-mouse-image="c:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\mouse_pointer.png" --no-video :screen-fps=5 :scre...

vlc screen:// --one-instance -I dummy --screen-follow-mouse --no-video :screen-fps=5 :screen-caching=300 --sout "#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=400,fps=5,scale=1,width=1280,height=1024,acodec=none}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux= avi ,dst="/home/user/Work/TD_capture.avi"}}" --run-...

Very strange: started to consume a 70-80% of one of CPU's cores under Windows too. What is wrong???!!!

I checked yesterday: vlc://quit works fine if run vlc with -I rc or -I hotkeys, etc and with --one-instance option. Then running second vlc copy with vlc://quit quits both. I run following command: vlc screen:// --one-instance -I rc --screen-follow-mouse --no-video --screen-fps 5 --sout "#trans...

Disappointment: http://wiki.videolan.org/Interfaces

Note that if you only use the dummy interface, you won't be able to tell vlc to quit (except watching a video).

What to do?!

Also, how to make mouse cursor visible on screencast?

P.S. --screen-follow-mouse does not work. Need to try --screen-mouse-image=<string>?

Found correct command line here: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=46971, so 1st and 4th issues are solved. However quit is not clear: command line help says about "vlc vlc://quit", but that url works only if --one-instance option is specified and vlc is in playing mode the...

Found correct one here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=46971

Have same problem. What is correct command line?

I'm trying to record my screen in background using following command line which was partially copy-pasted from VLC GUI: vlc screen:// -I dummy --no-video :screen-fps=10 :screen-caching=300 :sout'#transcode{vcodec=mp1v,vb=2000,fps=10,scale=1,width=640,height=480,acodec=none} :no-sout-rtp-sap :no-sout...