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Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen recording tool

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Re: Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen recording tool

#11
This is really cool!

I love how simple and straightforward the UX is. It was instantly obvious how to use it, and it worked quickly and perfectly without any modals/banners/ads/whatever.

I think a single sentence somewhere on the page after you stop the recording telling you that you can crop by clicking and dragging, and you can trim by moving the little time markers might help with discovery.

I didn't realize you could do either of those things until I read your comment here.

Re: Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen recording tool

#12

Neat idea but it doesn't work for me. Not sure if it's because of my browsers (Brave Browser) or my operating system (Arch Linux) or because of my window manager (AwesomeWM). No matter if I select record entire window or one window, I end up with a GIF that has the right duration but it's only black.

Probably hardware vs software screen buffer issue.

Other applications work (at least recordmydesktop, maim and screensharing in zoom). Also tried running compton which used to fix screensharing in zoom before Zoom solved it built-in.

Any ideas how I can troubleshoot this "hardware vs software screen buffer issue" so we could track down the issue?

Re: Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen recording tool

#13
post #7

Safari is a modern browser, but this doesn't work on it. Perhaps changing the description to the specific browsers supported(Chrome, Firefox, etc.) would be best? ADDENDUM: Thought that maybe just detecting the browser is best, showing a notice that the tool doesn't work with it.

Maybe Safari is no longer a modern browser.

I loathe safari. I use Brave and only switch to FF when something doesn’t work in brave.

Re: Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen recording tool

#16

Neat idea but it doesn't work for me. Not sure if it's because of my browsers (Brave Browser) or my operating system (Arch Linux) or because of my window manager (AwesomeWM). No matter if I select record entire window or one window, I end up with a GIF that has the right duration but it's only black.

Looks like it depends on WebRTC javascript apis which Brave browser might not support?

EDIT: More specifically, it needs to support getDisplayMedia()

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaDevice...

Re: Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen recording tool

#19

Safari is a modern browser, but this doesn't work on it. Perhaps changing the description to the specific browsers supported(Chrome, Firefox, etc.) would be best? ADDENDUM: Thought that maybe just detecting the browser is best, showing a notice that the tool doesn't work with it.

Does it work at all in MacOS? With all of the isolation that the Mac does, I could see this not working without giving it permission in settings.

Re: Show HN: Gifcap, a browser based client-side GIF screen recording tool

#20
post #17

That's neat! I also didn't know about the cropping feature until I read other comments, I thought it didn't support cropping.

I submitted a feature request to convert output to mp4 instead of gif: https://github.com/joaomoreno/gifcap/issues/8
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