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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

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Pretty cool Joao, works fluent! Now for instruction videos where e.g. typing is involved, I'll prefer ScreenToGif still (e.g. because of frame speed and export options (webm, mp4), but if it's to record a video on screen or something quick, this works just as easy, if not easier.

I think webm and mp4 support can be easily added to this tool, I submitted a feature request: https://github.com/joaomoreno/gifcap/issues/8

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

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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.

It does work on MacOS, Chrome

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

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Author here. Added some cool features like trimming and cropping, to make it easier for you to nail on the particular area of your screen and keep the recording to a minimum. Let me know what you think!

It's awesome man. Great work! Been looking for something like this. I love that I don't have to install some bloated screen recording tool.

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

#25
Very cool. Is there some kind of library so one can integrate this into one's own application easily?

Also, slightly related, Google Mail (and probably other products) has a "Report issue" feature, where I can take a screenshot of the current tab (and even crop it), is that in any way related (technology-wise)?

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

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Author here. Added some cool features like trimming and cropping, to make it easier for you to nail on the particular area of your screen and keep the recording to a minimum. Let me know what you think!

Hi, macOS / Firefox 74.0 user here. It will ask for permission and then fail with this message:

    MediaStreamError { name: "NotFoundError", message: "The object can not be found here.", constraint: "", stack: "" }
    main.js:116:15
        oncreate https://gifcap.dev/main.js:116
https://imgur.com/a/2pIsGto

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

#28
I know it's not really "amazing" because lots of software allow you to record screen but it's great that you made it too damn simple. That said, a suggestion to consider webm because 5.6mb for 7secs isn't probably justifiable.

side note: if you're on windows, win+g is a great new tool for the same.

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

#29
I really loathe GIF for screen recordings: they are huge, they look terrible due to the 8-bit color pallet and low frame rate (in a desperate attempt to make them less huge), encoding is slow (in my experience at least, probably no hwenc available?) and they are expensive to render. There’s hardly any reason to use GIF when you can use a video instead — Imgur did exactly that with their GIFV which is just an H.264 video IIRC.

Unfortunately there are still many places where only images are allowed (e,g, GitHub README). HEIF is supposed to solve this problem but support is apparently abysmal.[1]

Anyone aware of any progress on a replacement of GIF?

[1] https://caniuse.com/#feat=heif

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

#30

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.

That is very subjective. I'm on a Mac and when the term "modern web browser" is used, Safari doesn't even come to mind.
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