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Posted: **30 Sep 2014 12:12**

Hi all
Trying to capture my destop with mouse cursor I'd like to store the settings for further use.
But I can't even get it to work once. I select capture device Desktop then created a Desktop capture profile Ogg/Ogm codec Theora and filled Custom options field with:

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:screen-mouse-image=file:///~/.config/vlc/mouse.png

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I got the png file from a link somewhere in the vlc forum.
Please what is wrong?
Thank you

Posted: **30 Sep 2014 14:48**

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2978

Posted: **01 Oct 2014 09:04**

Hi Rémi
Ooch
It seems very old. I though specifying a mouse cursor picture as an option was a workaround to allow replacing the hardware rendered cursor which can't be captured.
Does this mean the :screen-mouse-image=file:/// option can't work at the moment although I find it in the documentation?

Posted: **01 Oct 2014 10:06**

I don't know what you're on about. There is no screen-mouse-image option in Linux VLC:

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 Screen capture (with X11/XCB) (xcb_screen)
      --screen-fps <float>       Frame rate
      --screen-left <integer [-32768 .. 32767]>
                                 Region left column
      --screen-top <integer [-32768 .. 32767]>
                                 Region top row
      --screen-width <integer [0 .. 65535]>
                                 Capture region width
      --screen-height <integer [0 .. 65535]>
                                 Capture region height
      --screen-follow-mouse, --no-screen-follow-mouse
                                 Follow the mouse (default disabled)

Posted: **01 Oct 2014 17:26**

https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/screen/ :

screen-mouse-image <filename> : Mouse pointer image to use. If specified, the pointer will be overlayed on the captured video. (New in VLC 1.0.0, Windows and x11 only). default value: ""

but vlc -H|grep mouse won't say syntax for screen-mouse-image. I'm afraid I have a syntax error in the path but I can't find back where I read the difference in general Windows/Linux syntax regarding paths. Should I add a fourth trailing / slash after the three ones of ...=file:/// for an absolute path and only the 3 genuine when using ~/[folder/]file relative path?
Or maybe do not use = before file:...
and/or trailing double -- dash instead of the ption syntax?

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