Record Desktop Silently

calendar Feb 9, 2022 · 1 min read · ffmpeg VBScript bat  ·
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Place these 3 files in any directory and run update.vbs to begin recording a Windows session silently.

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update.exe

  • This file is just ffmpeg that's been renamed to be slightly more inconspicuous in Task Manager.

update.bat

  • There are two lines to this batch file. The first line deletes "output.mp4" if it already exists in the same directory.
  • The framerate in frames per second of the recording is set here following the "-framerate" flag
  • The amount of time in seconds to record is set here following the "-t" flag
  • output.mp4 will be saved in the same directory after the specified amount of recording time is up.

update.vbs

  • This Visual Basic script runs udpate.bat without a visible command prompt.