Capturing and Recording Media

Figure 13.1: Actual Recording Session - note the bright green boundary box and the big arrow cursor within the "Video In" window

This section covers the areas of capturing media from the web or television by the use of recording.

Access the Record function via File → Record...The recording application really only does one thing, capture media from some external source and write it onto a file in a specified way.

Path:	output media file path
Start time:	weekday/time of day	to begin capture
Duration:	hrs:mins:secs	until end of capture
Source:	channel/device input	selection of input subsource
Mode:	timed	use start time/duration
	untimed	use transport controls

The media file will be written using the format and codec specified in the Settings → Preferences → Recording tab, which you will need to set up first. See the Settings/Preferences section for parameters. Only ffmpeg can record both audio and video simultaneously, and some ffmpeg formats require too much cpu to do a realtime compression. A setting which is more likely to be usable (requires less cpu/memory for realtime encoding) is ffmpeg → qt → mp4.qt with bitrates like audio/256000 & video/6000000.