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

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Post by southerntofu »

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?

I'm not sure Gnome desktop has one built in, but i'm sure most other desktop environments don't.

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

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Post by unixhero »

GranPC wrote: post #24
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...

Well that about clears things up! Thank you.

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

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Post by hutzlibu »

rcap wrote: post #32
hutzlibu wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hm, I think I tried that and it caused trouble with mp4.

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

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Post by j1elo »

I learned about the super useful VokoScreen[1] at HN, so now I'm returning the favor back at HN, for those using Linux (although looks like it also has Windows builds? I didn't know before!)

[1]: https://linuxecke.volkoh.de/vokoscreen/vokoscreen.html

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

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Post by Felk »

dend wrote: post #10
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.

I can also recommend licecap (https://www.cockos.com/licecap/), which is quite minimalistic but gets the job done

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

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Post by amoerie »

Something a colleague once showed me: if you open PowerPoint and try to add a video to a slide, it also lets you record your screen. You can draw a rectangle anywhere and start recording. Finally, you just save the video and discard the presentation.

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

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Post by raegis »

capableweb wrote: post #35
hactually wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They mentioned it is included with Gnome.

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

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Post by raegis »

southerntofu wrote: post #41
hactually wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm not sure Gnome desktop has one built in, but i'm sure most other desktop environments don't.

Gnome does have it built it, for as long as I can remember. Simultaneously press Control-Alt-Shift-R.

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

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Post by capableweb »

raegis wrote: post #47
capableweb wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They mentioned it is included with Gnome.

Yeah, hence my mention of "desktop environments" as Gnome is just that. Gnome is not Linux.

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

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Post by dangelov »

trishmapow2 wrote: post #23
hactually wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Or Win+Shift+S. I think you need to be on a newer Windows 10 release for it to work.

Still not as smooth as on macOS, but getting there.

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