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

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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.

Addendum: It's part of the XBox game bar. In case you are wondering where your recordings are, press Win+G.

It didn't work for me the first time - I had to open the game bar first. Also, I had to focus a Window. I cannot record the full desktop with this technique, so it's not quite the same as the linked application.

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

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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.

Assigning `killall ffmpeg` to a hotkey does the job.

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

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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.

Why not the built in QuickTime on macOS? It lets you choose a screen section with arbitrary aspect ratio.

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

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

you may also use hacksaw to select the screenarea to record dynamically

https://github.com/neXromancers/hacksaw#record-an-area-of-th...

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

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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?

What is the built in utility you're using on Linux for this? AFAIK, you need to download a separate utility for recording screens on Linux, or it comes with your desktop environment.

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

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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!

Did you by any chance tried to follow the build instructions[1] before trying to build it?

- [1] - https://github.com/akon47/ScreenRecorder#-build

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Why not the built in QuickTime on macOS? It lets you choose a screen section with arbitrary aspect ratio.

Does it offer compression, post-recording resizing and multi-format exports?

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

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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!

Did you by any chance tried to follow the build instructions[1] before trying to build it? - [1] - https://github.com/akon47/ScreenRecorder#-build

Oh you misunderstand I wasn't building it. I was downloading the package installer. There's an MSI link on the GitHub

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

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In Debian there is Simple Screen Recorder: apt install simplescreenrecorder

Yep Simple Screen Recorder is my daily driver for recording screencasts. Works perfectly, I really like that you can start/pause/save recording from the systray button.
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