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Or you can just use OBS which makes all this really easy ^^. But it was nice to learn about hk !

• 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
  OBS is awful if all your work is about "screen recording". take a look at simplescreenrecorder. it just works and i can record, save and upload a file in as much time as it takes for the recording. this takes almost no resources while OBS is a resource hog, unless you are streaming, there is absolutely no reason to use OBS.
  • asicsp 4y ago
    I use SimpleScreenRecorder (which is also mentioned in the footnote of the article). It really is simple to use and light weight. I used to manually select area to record (with border outside the window to record) until I searched and found a solution using ffmpeg to add the border. So, now I just use the select window option. I also use Auto-Editor (https://github.com/WyattBlue/auto-editor https://github.com/WyattBlue/auto-editor) to prune silent portions.
  • themoonisachees 4y ago
    I find the resource -hogging of obs really goes away once you start using hardware encoding. Not available on old cards, but the performance overhead is minimal.
    • 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
      i am using dell latitude E7440 laptop and it does not have a dedicated graphics card. i have tried using "OBS" but it was "too painful" to get working
      • themoonisachees 4y ago
        I'm all for using and reusing old hardware as long as it makes sense, but complaining about something being a resource hog on a 9 year old laptop with 8GB of ddr3 is nonsensical.
        • MikusR 4y ago
          At least up to 8th gen intel igpu OBS is unusable
        • 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
          So I should switch to anew laptp, spend a thousand dollars because my current machine won't run obs. It will run other software like simple screen recorder just fine but no. Its the user who is wrong for owning old/affordable machines. Great.
        • heysagnik 4y ago
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  • jenscow 4y ago
    OBS can record an actual window, rather than an area on the screen. That is, you can move the window or cover it while recording, and you will only get the window contents. But yeh, it's heavy. I tend to use peek for quick ones.
  • DoctorOW 4y ago
    VLC has a feature for this as well. That's my go-to since it's usually already on my machine no matter which I'm using
  • smcameron 4y ago
    > unless you are streaming, there is absolutely no reason to use OBS. Not true in my experience. Simplescreenrecorder was not capable of recording (without streaming) full screen opengl games with sound at acceptable quality last time I tried it, OBS is the only thing I've found that will do this apart from hardware based recorders. To be fair, the last time I tried simplescreenrecorder was several years ago, perhaps it has improved in the meantime.
  • spicybright 4y ago
    Why is that the case? I only do screen recordings and it's a fantastic tool for it. I haven't used SSR before, but I'm not even seeing a meter for adjusting your microphone volume.
  • snvzz 4y ago
    >OBS is a resource hog I'm confused, as it is super lightweight. Most of its resource usage is from video encoding. You can lower the quality, exchange bitrate for cpu while keeping the quality, or even use hardware encoding.