I wondered, Browsers work really well, are already there anyways, have all the GPU stuff etc already dealt with. They also have portal support so Wayland works great.
It could use the Browsers screencast ability on all platforms, and run with Javascript and WASM.
The stuff could be installed in a local Podman container and thus also work natively on Linux.
Do you know an app that does this, client-side?
Thanks to the actually helpful people:
screenity, GPLv3, has some nice features
recordscreen.io some random webservice, the recording is supposedly done in the browser. Proprietary.
OBS
OBS is extremely bloated for simple screen recording.
There is GPU Screen recorder which I currently use, and it is fine. But that is pretty much the only one.
OBS is extremely bloated for simple screen recording.
And a browser isn’t??
I mean I already use a browser all the time.
I guess the word “bloat” has no meaning anymore.
“bloat” = it has features I don’t like
Highly disagree. Even though bloat may not matter much on your $10000 PC, it still gets worse over time and creates more and more ewaste for no reason.
EDIT: yep there are a lot of laziness and bloat supporters in this community for sure
I’ve ran OBS on a 5 year old Chromebook with 32GB storage using Linux to stream to Twitch, I think most computers are capable of running OBS to record a video.
I’m not talking about OBS. I’m talking about the “bloat doesn’t matter. Just buy a new PC” philosophy
Features ≠ Bloat
Which dependency of OBS make you say that? Most of them are already probably installed on your system anyway.
What do you mean by bloated? Isn’t it 2 clicks at most after the one time next-next-finish setup?
Too many features, too cluttery UI, made for a complete task I may not use.
I used OBS a lot but would like to find something slimmer
I think you can disable most of the toolbars in the main screen if it helps.
You can do that in the “Docks” menu in the topmost bar, unticking any you don’t need.
I think you can freely hide these, maybe more: stats, audio mixer, scene transitions, sources (after you have set up your capture source), scenes.Then if it’s still a lot, you can untick these in the View menu besides Docks: scene/source list buttons, source toolbar, status bar.
At that point you only have the controls dock, the preview, and the thin top bar.
Don’t forget to reenable the sources dock and the audio mixer if you want to change those settings, though.I think I will switch back to OBS Studio or stay with GPU Screen recorder :D
But the idea is interesting anyways as a concept, as it works everywhere, on literally any Linux distro without any dependencies apart from “some” Javascript.
You lost me on the part where we create an in-browser screen recorder… and then proceed to package it natively.
If you are just lookin for a light screen recording utility, I suggest giving Spectacle a try.
Spectacle only runs on KDE afaik, which is not the problem. But it also doesnt really compress much, I dont know if it uses the GPU too.
Agree spectacle + ffmpeg might be a good solution with postprocessing.
Online screen recorders already exist too, I also don’t think it really needs any server side logic either.
You seem profoundly confused on what the hell you actually want
RecordScreen.io works for me when I want to do that. It’s supposed to record locally (I’ve tried and have seen no data leaving my computer, but maybe should try taking it offline while recording, see if it breaks).
Thanks for an actually useful comment :D
It might be something like Photopea, that can also just be downloaded and ran locally.
Awesome!
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If you want a screen recorder, try Kooha. Not exactly sure what you want, exactly.
Service as a software substitute
No, it is not a service if it runs locally in the browser.
And even less if you can load it from the system into the browser.
