---
name: "captury"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "captury"
version: "0.3.0~svn158-2"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/captury"
---

# captury(1)

screen capture tool

## NAME

Captury - screen capture tool

## DESCRIPTION

Captury is a screen capture applications, primarly done for recording OpenGl games.

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  usage: captury \[options\] \[--\] command \[command options ...\]

### captury options:

- **-v**, **--verbose**

  be more verbose when logging messages (can be repeated)

- **-q**, **--quiet**

  be more quiet when logging messages (can be repeated)

- **-V**, **--version**

  prints program version and exits

- **-h**, **--help**

  prints this help and exits

- **--fps**=*VALUE*

  overrides default fps to capture on \[25\]

- **--scale**=*VALUE*

  overrides default scaling value \[1\] A value of 0 disables frame scaling but costs much more CPU load

- **--output-dir**=*PATH*

  overrides path where to store the captured movies \[/tmp\]

- **--cursor**

  Explicitely draw a cursor into the movie

- **--auto-capture**

  automatically starts capturing a movie at its earliest possible time

- **--**

  explicitely states, that following arguments belong to the client application.

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  System settings are loaded from /etc/captury.conf You can store user defined settings in ~/.config/captury.conf Your settings take precedance over system defaults and command line arguments precede the user settings.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2007 by Christian Parpart \<trapni@gentoo.org\>