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How do I record the VirtualBox screen to a file?

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Mar 15, 20265152 views
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Problem

I'm using non-OSE VirtualBox which seems to support recording the VM screen to a file. But somehow it complains with the following message: Failed to load the video capture extension Any idea how to enforce it?

Error Output

VBoxHeadless -c -f record.avi -s myvm

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The problem is in the VirtualBox distribution itself, which now lacks the required modules. If you took a look in the module VBoxHeadless.cpp, you would see that for this to function, the following conditions must be fulfilled : VBOX_FFMPEG must be …

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