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Hello,

I have version 2.2.0 under Mac OS X 10.9 I try to capture a video of what is on the screen.

I go:
1. open VLC media player
2. go to the menue next to "VLC" and choose "capture device = opt+R"
3. from the for tabs I choose "recording"
4. underneath the 4 tabs I choose "Screen"
5: Screensize 1280x1024)
Frames per Sec: 24 (I am in Europe, Germany)
I check mark "record audio: input (integrated)
I check mark "stream/save:"
6. I click on "preferences"
and check mark "show stream locally" and choose "File" and choose a destination and give the file a name and click ok (window closes and I am back in window of step 5
7. I click on "open"
8. I get a loop of VLC player windows...

and now? I found guides where they talk about a record button. There is no such button.

Have you tried use the Video menu? Click Video at the top of the screen, and select Snapshot. The pre-defined hot-keys is in

MAC OS X: Command+Alt+s,

Windows,Linux, and Unix: Shift+s.

If you want to change the hot-keys go to Preferences → Interface → Hotkeys and set Take video snapshot. Then write the hot-keys you want.

After you have tacked a snapshot you may want to see it.

I would not activate "show stream locally" in that case

In VLC 2.2.0 when I click on video from the menu, all the drop down menu options are grey. When I try the shortcut instead cmd+alt+s I get a "bonk" sound.

Also, I am not trying to make a picture of my desktop, I want to make a video clip of what I do on my desktop.

This must be very easy and I am very stupid, otherwise I would expect you had done a guide about it. I find several on the internet, that all have functions that are not present in this version (probably older versions?). - or maybe most people don't know about the screen capture feature in VLC.

Couldn't you make a guide with screenshots of the several steps?

Here is what I have

after the last window and clicking open, it usually gives me a loop of opening VLC windows getting smaller towards the background. Now after I changed the language to english, it just does nothing after clicking open.

EDIT: ok, no attachments, so I can't show you what I did...

Have you tried use the Video menu? Click Video at the top of the screen, and select Snapshot. The pre-defined hot-keys is in

MAC OS X: Command+Alt+s,

Windows,Linux, and Unix: Shift+s.

If you want to change the hot-keys go to Preferences → Interface → Hotkeys and set Take video snapshot. Then write the hot-keys you want.

After you have tacked a snapshot you may want to see it.

What you are doing is a snapshot. This is a picture, a photo of the desktop.
What I want is a video, a movie, a film of the desktop.

I can't believe there is no one, who knows how to use the screen-capture feature (i.e. make a video-clip of what you are doing on the desktop).

Yeah, can't figure it out either. I can get to the point where I have a .ts file, but it won't open. Alternatively, I can watch a screen repeat over and over. Like you, the video tab is all greyed out.

Steps:
1. File -> Open Capture Device
2. In the menu, click the Streaming/Saving checkbox and go into the settings. I select the file. I've tried numerous formats.
3. The video starts running. After a bit, I click stop.
4. Try to open the file in anything, and I get "can't recognize the format" messages. Tried this with the default, Quicktime, MP4, etc. And also tried to do a conversion from the .ts file I was getting.

Seems like we should open a bug report, eh? See for this for a list of bugs with screen in them; add capture to narrow it down a bit.

i just did the step by step that is at the top of the page from -VideoEthernet- & i can't even describe how my computer freaked out fully to you. it just started flashing several different colors, diff. words on the screen rotated being highlighted, i got a new mouse cursor on the screen with every flash (several at same time & counting) nothing seemed to be working so i had to force quit vlc.

any idea what was going on??

i just found out a very easy way to do this. use quick time, it is the way that it should be. what i mean is vlc over complicates things & quick time player does not

I agree, if you want to have an easy way to record your desktop into a file, just use Quicktime.

VLC is useful though if you want to do more fancy things with this video, like streaming it on the fly to another device for instance.

Performing thread necromancy to provide an answer because this thread is one of the top Google results for using VLC to screen capture on Mac and I can't believe no one here figured it out!

The only step you have to do after the ones OP listed is go to Playback > Record. Then when you're done recording, just go back to Playback and uncheck Record.

There you have it!

EDIT: some people were talking about hotkeys, the hotkey for Record is command+alt+R