Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen

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Post by akon47 » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 5:35 AM UTC

Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen
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Re: Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen

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Post by TekMol » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 6:24 AM UTC

In Debian there is Simple Screen Recorder:

    apt install simplescreenrecorder

Re: Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen

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Post by DarthNebo » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 6:27 AM UTC

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!

Re: Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen

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Post by Ambolia » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 6:27 AM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen

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Post by wwwhizz » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 6:33 AM UTC

Congrats on making a small, useful, working tool! I like the minimalism.

Maybe you should mention on your GitHub page that it is for Windows.

Re: Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen

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Post by wwwhizz » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 6:35 AM UTC

Ambolia wrote: post #4

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.

This only records the whole screen. You might want to try OBS Studio?

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Post by gjs278 » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 6:41 AM UTC

this could be OS independent since it’s mainly an ffmpeg front end

Re: Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen

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Post by tartoran » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 6:48 AM UTC

wwwhizz wrote: post #6

Ambolia wrote: post #4

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.

This only records the whole screen. You might want to try OBS Studio?

OBS studio is really a good free software!! It has a lot of features and could be a bit intimidating at first but I got nothing but praise for them

Re: Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen

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Post by graderjs » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 6:51 AM UTC

So I tried installing it on my barebones Windows 10 box:

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!

Re: Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen

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Post by dend » Thu, Sep 02, 2021, 6:52 AM UTC

Ambolia wrote: post #4

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.

You might want to try ScreenToGif (https://www.screentogif.com/) for Windows and Kap (https://getkap.co/) for macOS.