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Fantastic work. I wish there was something similar for Linux. it sounds like you've made something that has minimal overhead. I like the mouse-pointer hac
by stuaxo 9y ago
Fantastic work. I wish there was something similar for Linux. it sounds like you've made something that has minimal overhead.
I like the mouse-pointer hack, I guess you could take it further by only adding it when the user wants to save the clips (and it gives the option of having no mouse pointer, or maybe hiding it around the time when the mouse is not moving or being clicked).
- TheTon 9y agoI thought about that, but the problem is, I would have to decode and then re-encode the video on save to composite in the mouse cursor. As far as I know, there is no way to quickly and non-destructively composite an image on top of h264 video.
- TheTon 9y agoI should add, though, the idea of storing the mouse cursor separate from the captured video is a really good one in general. I am pretty sure this is what ScreenFlow does, because you can edit the mouse cursor in their app after a video has already been recorded. The tradeoff is that they need to spend more time and space during the recording phase to get really high quality source video, and then they have an additional export phase when you want to save the video out that does the rendering and lossy compression. That tradeoff is no problem for them, but doesn't fit RetroClip's use case.