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Your buttons doesn't work for me on Chrome 36 / Mac OSX:

http://www.gfycat.com/OptimisticGrossAegeancat

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Offtopic, but which tool do you use to capture videos like this? I've been meaning to find one.

EDIT: I'm getting the feeling there might be a niche market for a cross-platform program that does this. QuickCast is slick, but Mac-only. Simplescreenrecorder works, but it's Linux-only. Running ffmpeg console commands might work, but it's a bit esoteric. Nvidia has a tool, but only for Nvidia card owners. And QuickTime is, well, QuickTime. Interesting...

Not sure if it's what grandparent used, but I recently discovered QuickTime Player has a feature to do screen recording that works pretty well

I found simplescreenrecorder (for Linux, probably for other OSs) fantastic for this.

If you have a Nvidia graphics card 6xx and higher, a feature called "Shadow Play" does a great job of recording on screen content.

QuickCast is great for recording and hosting tiny screencasts too

ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1024x768 -r 30 -i :0.0 -sameq x11grab.mpg

Open Broadcaster Software? https://obsproject.com/

Hmm, can OBS capture WebM to be uploaded to Gfycat?

Actually, it'd be nice to have a program that records WebM + uploads to Gfycat in one step.

I used GifGrabber but it's very bad. I'm sure there is a place for someone, especially for a web-based alternative.

(I also have LiteCap, QuickCast, ... but there are all really bad)

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