Yep Simple Screen Recorder is my daily driver for recording screencasts. Works perfectly, I really like that you can start/pause/save recording from the systray button.
A hacky webcam on-screen display can be achieved with https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/getusermedia/re... & right clicking on the video to Picture-in-Picture mode. You can then drag it around where you want while you screen record & it stays on top!
Can it easily record a square section of the screen without recording the full screen? Would be nice to have a program like that equivalent to screenshot tools like flameshot.
I will use OBS for recording tech training sessions. It's a robust app that can be set up for anything I need. I develop open source software in a linux desktop environment, and am thrilled by the capabilities of this program to record my workflow.
I commend the author of this post for creating a simple tool for windows. Anything that helps is capture and share knowledge is a win.
This is indeed something I assume people would use a lot. The Windows snipping tool is already pretty neat, but the capability to record video and save as gif/webm would be really helpful.
Yes but it's buried down in the `Build` instructions. It should be in the About section: "A simple recording program for Windows with the ability to record screens and audio on your computer." (emphasis mine)
Don't know why you're being downvoted, I build .NET code in Visual Studio on Windows 10 and execute it on my Raspberry Pi frequently. .NET is certainly not a Windows-only technology.
Yikes! win 10 or newer?
Win 10 has screen record, with or without audio, built in.
I'm always looking for quick simple browser based things to suggest to friends, and if there is anything cheaper than corel videostudio (when it's on sale) - for win 8, win 7 - which is my preferred tool for the past so many years.
Addendum: It's part of the XBox game bar. In case you are wondering where your recordings are, press Win+G.
It didn't work for me the first time - I had to open the game bar first. Also, I had to focus a Window. I cannot record the full desktop with this technique, so it's not quite the same as the linked application.
What is the built in utility you're using on Linux for this? AFAIK, you need to download a separate utility for recording screens on Linux, or it comes with your desktop environment.
KDE seems to have a choice of 3 programs for that on the project, but at least on my Debian they weren't installed by default with the minimum KDE. Maybe they come in the full installation.
MacOS does have this ability via QuickTime, but I wish I could find something that records my screen + audio output. There is are some hacky ways to do this on MacOS, but I haven't found anything super reliable yet. Though, I believe this is more or less intentional by Apple.
I checked your link, and even did a "command + f" search. I saw no mentions of the words "audio," "sound," "input", nor "output."
Without some sort of fancy hardware or hacky software, I am not sure if it's possible -- at least not as of 6 or so months ago when I was looking for it.
To test:
Use the link above and try to record the audio of something like a YouTube video while recording the screen playing the video. If you can manage to get this to work, please share your results. I would be so obliged. This is not my goal of the software, but it's a quick test to show you what I am looking for.
Do you know a easy way, to stop recording via a hotkey?
Because my recorded videos via ffmpeg always had the last seconds showing me how to switch to the terminal and stop by hand, which is more work for editing, which is why I use OBS studio, which I can recommend.
I studied the screen capture topic some time ago with video-games. Interestingly, there are also direct APIs for Windows, e.g., https://github.com/bryal/dxgcap-rs
I learned about the super useful VokoScreen[1] at HN, so now I'm returning the favor back at HN, for those using Linux (although looks like it also has Windows builds? I didn't know before!)
I have been looking for a simple Windows screen recording app over the last few months. This app let me record my screen with audio straight to webm without needing any extra installs or mucking around with config settings.
Something a colleague once showed me: if you open PowerPoint and try to add a video to a slide, it also lets you record your screen. You can draw a rectangle anywhere and start recording. Finally, you just save the video and discard the presentation.
What I would love would be something that would work in a dashcam mode, constantly storing the preceding n minutes with the option to save parts to file. Useful for example for those times I am testing/debugging a gui app and I trigger a bug but cannot later reproduce.
I've used https://www.realartists.com/retroclip/ on macOS for years and highly recommend. I paid $4.99 when it was released, but it looks like it's available for free now.
Windows has a built in Video Compression optimized for Screen Cast / Screen Capture (See [Windows Media Video Screen][1]).
It yields much better results than x264 for this task.
It is used by [FastStone Capture][2].
I wish modern codecs had this as well (A mode optimized for screen casting).
https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/ older and way more polished project that has the additional bonus of not mixing languages. Its all C# or uses exiting tools like ffmpeg.exe
ffmpeg is so powerful that I don't think you need a separate tool for anything that ffmpeg can do. While ffmpeg instructions are a bit more complex, it's just worth learning it.
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It allows recording a rectangle/section of the screen, supports Wayland and records to webm by default - which most(?) browsers can play directly.
It's made it trivial to record short how-to videos for helping illustrate how to do something with a web app, or to illustrate visual bugs.
[1] https://obsproject.com/
I commend the author of this post for creating a simple tool for windows. Anything that helps is capture and share knowledge is a win.
https://getsharex.com/
Maybe you should mention on your GitHub page that it is for Windows.
I'm always looking for quick simple browser based things to suggest to friends, and if there is anything cheaper than corel videostudio (when it's on sale) - for win 8, win 7 - which is my preferred tool for the past so many years.
I do suggest putting win 10 only prominently.
It didn't work for me the first time - I had to open the game bar first. Also, I had to focus a Window. I cannot record the full desktop with this technique, so it's not quite the same as the linked application.
Still not as smooth as on macOS, but getting there.
I'm on the latest Windows 10 and I still only see static image capture options.
See https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/take-a-screenshot-o...
Without some sort of fancy hardware or hacky software, I am not sure if it's possible -- at least not as of 6 or so months ago when I was looking for it.
To test:
Use the link above and try to record the audio of something like a YouTube video while recording the screen playing the video. If you can manage to get this to work, please share your results. I would be so obliged. This is not my goal of the software, but it's a quick test to show you what I am looking for.
First try: "Install C++ resdistributable" Okay...Done
Second try: "Could not find MediaEncoder.dll"
I added the NAudio and SharpDX packages from nuget thinking that might solve it, but no...
Sorry I don't know how to use your software!
- [1] - https://github.com/akon47/ScreenRecorder#-build
Umm. What's up with the backslashes or forward slashes in the screenshots?
Because my recorded videos via ffmpeg always had the last seconds showing me how to switch to the terminal and stop by hand, which is more work for editing, which is why I use OBS studio, which I can recommend.
https://github.com/neXromancers/hacksaw#record-an-area-of-th...
[1]: https://linuxecke.volkoh.de/vokoscreen/vokoscreen.html
Thanks for sharing.
It is used by [FastStone Capture][2].
I wish modern codecs had this as well (A mode optimized for screen casting).
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Video#Windows_Me... [2]: https://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm
ffmpeg is so powerful that I don't think you need a separate tool for anything that ffmpeg can do. While ffmpeg instructions are a bit more complex, it's just worth learning it.