---
name: "vokoscreenNG"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "vokoscreen-ng"
version: "4.4.0-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/vokoscreenNG"
---

# vokoscreenNG(1)

user friendly Open Source screencast

## NAME

**vokoscreenNG** - user friendly Open Source screencast

## SYNOPSIS

```
Usage: vokoscreenNG
```

## DESCRIPTION

*vokoscreenNG* **is an easy to use screencast creator to record videos from computers** **screen, webcams, external cameras, etc. This graphical tool can produce educational** **videos, live recordings of browser navigation, tutorials of installations, record** **videoconferences, etc. You can capture an alone video or video and sound.**

**This program can save files in some formats and use some codecs for video and** **audio:**

- •

  **Video: x264, VP8, H.264 (Intel GPU) and MPEG-2 (Intel GPU).**

- •

  **Audio: vorbis, flac, opus and mp3.**

- •

  **File : mkv, webm, avi, mp4 and mov.**

*vokoscreenNG* **is a modern full replacement for vokoscreen, both written by Volker** **Kohaupt. The main difference is that vokoscreen uses ffmpeg as base, while** *vokoscreenNG* **has been rewritten from scratch and is based in GStreamer.**

## FILES

**Settings are stored under $HOME/.config.**

- **~/.config/*vokoscreenNG*/vokoscreenNG.ini**

  **Configuration file stores audio settings, standard player, video path.**

- **~/.config/*vokoscreenNG*/log/vokoscreenNG.log**

  **Log file stores information about the last execution of** *vokoscreenNG***.**

## BUGS

**Report bugs to \<vkohaupt@freenet.de\> or file an issue at** **https://github.com/vkohaupt/***vokoscreenNG***/issues. Alternatively, if you are a** **Debian user you can open a bug using reportbug tool.**

## AUTHOR

*vokoscreenNG* **was written by Volker Kohaupt \<vkohaupt@freenet.de\>.**

**This manual page was written by Joao Eriberto Mota Filho \<eriberto@debian.org\> and** **updated by Thiago Andrade Marques \<andrade@debian.org\> for the Debian project (but** **may be used by others).**
