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

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Post by makeitrain »

tartoran wrote: post #8
wwwhizz wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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.

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

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Post by trishmapow2 »

hactually wrote: post #20
wwwhizz wrote: post #5

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.

I think that part is assumed as Gnome/Linux and MacOSX have it built in?

Windows 10 has it built-in too, try Win+Alt+R.

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

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Post by GranPC »

unixhero wrote: post #14

Everything looks great! Umm. What's up with the backslashes or forward slashes in the screenshots?

The author of this software is Korean. Japanese and Korean installations of Windows display backslashes "incorrectly" - more info here: https://web.archive.org/web/20060208041008/http://blogs.msdn...

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

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Post by hutzlibu »

CraneWorm wrote: post #19

if you need more options just use ffmpeg directly https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop

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.

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

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Post by wwwhizz »

ryannevius wrote: post #11
wwwhizz wrote: post #5

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.

In the README: "Windows 10 or newer"

To build it, yes. It never mentions it is for running on Windows.

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

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Post by rtutz »

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 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.

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

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Post by CraneWorm »

hutzlibu wrote: post #25
CraneWorm wrote: post #19

if you need more options just use ffmpeg directly https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop

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 suppose AutoHotkey would do the job :)
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