Screencast capture on OSX using VLC

A nice post on howto use VLC to cpature the screen on OSX. I assume this will work on linux too.

Just in case it disapears, the import bit is:

• Open VLC as you would do normally
• Window -> Errors and Warnings (this will warn you if encoding failed)
• File -> Open Capture Device -> Screen
• Try to limit the area You are recording by specifying Subscreen parameters – I didn’t have any luck with recording full screen
• Tick: “Streaming/Saving”
• Click on “Settings…”
• Select “File”, click on Browse, select dir where you want to save the file and give it some name
• Encapsulation Method: MPEG 4
• Transcoding options: tick “Video” and select mp4, Bitrate 512
• Untick “Audio” (just to test if it works without it)
• Click “OK”
• we are back to previous screen, click “Open”