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ffscreencast – a screencast CLI-tool with video overlay and multimonitor support

190 points by app4soft 6y ago

_Gyan_ 6y ago
The last commit is from Mar 2017. Much of the activity in Issues also ends at that time. Looks abandoned rather than matured.
- breakfastduck 6y ago
  In fairness if it does indeed do what's advertised then there isn't necessarily a need to continue working on it.
  - fireattack 6y ago
    Supporting more OS is always something can be worked on.
    - konjin 6y ago
      Why?
      - fireattack 6y ago
        It says "coming soon" for freeBSD and Windows in the readme, so I assume it is (was) planned.
timvisee 6y ago
Based on it's name, combining it with ffsend [1], would make it a fun quick screen sharing tool. /s [1] https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend
pininja 6y ago
This has a ffmpeg command generator feature where it’ll tell you what it would run. I could find that useful in trying to fix anything broken with it.
kristopolous 6y ago
I have a fairly similar hackable script in my tools repo on GitHub for the curious. Essentially I wanted to be able to pipe the music I was playing into the stream and the microphone input. Also I wanted to allow for a secondary camera (droidcam for me) at leisure. I suppose OBS is better if you spend the time with it. https://github.com/kristopolous/tools/blob/master/bin/screencast https://github.com/kristopolous/tools/blob/master/bin/screen... There's a preferences file example here https://github.com/kristopolous/tools/blob/master/bin/.screencast-props-example https://github.com/kristopolous/tools/blob/master/bin/.scree...
- app4soft 6y ago
  > I suppose OBS is better if you spend the time with it. There is one unsolvable issue which prevents to use OBS: OBS can't be used on PC with integrated GPU limited to OpenGL 1.x (such as RS600).
nitrogen 6y ago
How well/fast does ffmpeg's x11grab work? I've got a hand-rolled solution for Linux screen recording that can do 120+fps, but it's very brittle.
- nakovet 6y ago
  Is it open source? I've been looking for a headless web recorder for a while, with audio support if possible.
  - nitrogen 6y ago
    Sadly no, it's like three different tools linked with the equivalent of bailing twine, one of which is a kiosk/home theater UI I wrote when I was just out of high school a really long time ago. Also it definitely wouldn't work headless. I have seen headless browser recording tools before, not sure what framerate they could handle.
    - philip142au 6y ago
      What headless browser streaming have you seen?
      - nitrogen 6y ago
        I haven't tried these, but gathered a few in a StackOverflow answer not too long ago: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64127074/737303 https://stackoverflow.com/a/64127074/737303
gbolcer 6y ago
First thing I did was try to run this in Bash/WSL and display it to Xming on Win10. I couldn't get it to recognize the screen, so was upgrading. Will report back. If it works then that will be one of the most useful things ever.
867-5309 6y ago
this README.md should be a template for all readmes, bravo
EnigmaCurry 6y ago
How to do this on wayland in sway?
- tonyhb 6y ago
  You want to use wf-recorder. This is in my sway config: > set $screenrecord wf-recorder -g "$(slurp)" -f ~/screenshots/mov-$(date +"%Y-%m-%d--%H-%M-%S.mp4") > bindsym Shift+Control+F6 exec $screenrecord > bindsym Ctrl+Shift+BackSpace exec killall -s SIGINT wf-recorder Hitting shift-control-f6 will spawn slurp which lets you click and drag to set the area you want to record. This will then launch wf-recorder and record the selected area, saving to ~/screenshots/mov-${date}. You can use ctrl-shift-backspace to kill the recorder and end recording. https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder https://github.com/emersion/slurp https://github.com/emersion/slurp
  - EnigmaCurry 6y ago
    sweet, thanks
sqrt 6y ago
FYI for anyone on OS X Catalina (and likely Big Sur): this doesn't seem to work, as it's not detecting AVFoundation support in ffmpeg. See this issue: https://github.com/cytopia/ffscreencast/issues/31 https://github.com/cytopia/ffscreencast/issues/31

190 points by app4soft 6y ago

The last commit is from Mar 2017. Much of the activity in Issues also ends at that time. Looks abandoned rather than matured.

breakfastduck 6y ago
In fairness if it does indeed do what's advertised then there isn't necessarily a need to continue working on it.
- fireattack 6y ago
  Supporting more OS is always something can be worked on.
  - konjin 6y ago
    Why?
    - fireattack 6y ago
      It says "coming soon" for freeBSD and Windows in the readme, so I assume it is (was) planned.

timvisee 6y ago

Based on it's name, combining it with ffsend [1], would make it a fun quick screen sharing tool. /s [1] https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend

pininja 6y ago

This has a ffmpeg command generator feature where it’ll tell you what it would run. I could find that useful in trying to fix anything broken with it.

kristopolous 6y ago

I have a fairly similar hackable script in my tools repo on GitHub for the curious. Essentially I wanted to be able to pipe the music I was playing into the stream and the microphone input. Also I wanted to allow for a secondary camera (droidcam for me) at leisure. I suppose OBS is better if you spend the time with it. https://github.com/kristopolous/tools/blob/master/bin/screencast https://github.com/kristopolous/tools/blob/master/bin/screen... There's a preferences file example here https://github.com/kristopolous/tools/blob/master/bin/.screencast-props-example https://github.com/kristopolous/tools/blob/master/bin/.scree...

app4soft 6y ago
> I suppose OBS is better if you spend the time with it. There is one unsolvable issue which prevents to use OBS: OBS can't be used on PC with integrated GPU limited to OpenGL 1.x (such as RS600).

nitrogen 6y ago

How well/fast does ffmpeg's x11grab work? I've got a hand-rolled solution for Linux screen recording that can do 120+fps, but it's very brittle.

nakovet 6y ago
Is it open source? I've been looking for a headless web recorder for a while, with audio support if possible.
- nitrogen 6y ago
  Sadly no, it's like three different tools linked with the equivalent of bailing twine, one of which is a kiosk/home theater UI I wrote when I was just out of high school a really long time ago. Also it definitely wouldn't work headless. I have seen headless browser recording tools before, not sure what framerate they could handle.
  - philip142au 6y ago
    What headless browser streaming have you seen?
    - nitrogen 6y ago
      I haven't tried these, but gathered a few in a StackOverflow answer not too long ago: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64127074/737303 https://stackoverflow.com/a/64127074/737303

gbolcer 6y ago

First thing I did was try to run this in Bash/WSL and display it to Xming on Win10. I couldn't get it to recognize the screen, so was upgrading. Will report back. If it works then that will be one of the most useful things ever.

867-5309 6y ago

this README.md should be a template for all readmes, bravo

EnigmaCurry 6y ago

How to do this on wayland in sway?

tonyhb 6y ago
You want to use wf-recorder. This is in my sway config: > set $screenrecord wf-recorder -g "$(slurp)" -f ~/screenshots/mov-$(date +"%Y-%m-%d--%H-%M-%S.mp4") > bindsym Shift+Control+F6 exec $screenrecord > bindsym Ctrl+Shift+BackSpace exec killall -s SIGINT wf-recorder Hitting shift-control-f6 will spawn slurp which lets you click and drag to set the area you want to record. This will then launch wf-recorder and record the selected area, saving to ~/screenshots/mov-${date}. You can use ctrl-shift-backspace to kill the recorder and end recording. https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder https://github.com/emersion/slurp https://github.com/emersion/slurp
- EnigmaCurry 6y ago
  sweet, thanks

sqrt 6y ago

FYI for anyone on OS X Catalina (and likely Big Sur): this doesn't seem to work, as it's not detecting AVFoundation support in ffmpeg. See this issue: https://github.com/cytopia/ffscreencast/issues/31 https://github.com/cytopia/ffscreencast/issues/31