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Blue-Recorder, a Simple Screen Recorder Written in Rust
- cranberryturkey 2y agohangs on arch/kde
- saidinesh5 2y ago[flagged]
- thayne 2y ago> with support for Wayland display server on GNOME session It may only work on gnome...
- prmoustache 2y ago> It may only work on gnome... Which already has an integrated screen recorder that works fairly well.
- oaththrowaway 2y agoThe GNOME screen recorder works the best out of all the ones I've tried. It allows you to record a selected part of the screen as well, which Blue Recorder doesn't
- craftkiller 2y ago> which Blue Recorder doesn't Whats the function of the "Select an Area" button in this screenshot then? https://github.com/xlmnxp/blue-recorder/blob/master/screenshots/screenshot1.png https://github.com/xlmnxp/blue-recorder/blob/master/screensh...
- oaththrowaway 2y agoProbably for Xorg maybe? It doesn't work for me in Wayland
- seanalltogether 2y agoLooking at the source code, this ui can handle x11 or wayland, but wayland can only do window recording or monitor recording, for x11 it's all just handed over to ffmpeg which can handle x,y,width,height input variables.
- thayne 2y agoInteresting. On wlroots compositors, it is easier to capture a region than a window, so many screen recording tools that target wlroots (for example wl-recorder) support regions but not windows.
- rd07 2y agoA few weeks ago, I tried Blue Recorder just because Gnome's Screen Recorder gave out some static when recording a certain area. IIRC, in Blue Recorder I can't even do recording a selected area, maybe because I am on wayland.
- aorth 2y agoMy thoughts exactly. I'm on sway / wlroots for years and don't know how people put up with wl-recorder. GNOME's screen recorder works so much better.
- seltzered_ 2y agoGnome's integrated screen recorder for wayland didn't arrive until 2022 IIRC. Blue-recorder, green-recorder (https://github.com/mhsabbagh/green-recorder https://github.com/mhsabbagh/green-recorder), etc. were around to fill in the gap at the time and may still be useful for special cases.
- Arnavion 2y agoI haven't tried it, but looking at the code, it talks to xdp to setup the screencast session and then gstreamer with the pipewiresrc to record it. It should work on any compositor with an xdp implementation that supports the Screencast protocol. KDE's does. Are you sure it hangs and doesn't just show a dialog somewhere for you to select which screen to cast / give it permission to screencast?
- cranberryturkey 2y agoYes I get an icon but no window
- Arnavion 2y agoAs in it hangs when you launch it, not that it launches successfully but then hangs when you press the Record button? Probably a more fundamental windowing problem than the screencasting interface interaction then.
- cranberryturkey 2y agoyeah it hangs on launch.
- kookamamie 2y ago[flagged]
- matricaria 2y agoWhat are the benefits of „Written in Rust“ here? As far as I understand this is basically a GUI for FFMPEG, which is written in C. Is it just marketing?
- Gormo 2y agoThere seems to be a trend of people building frontends to already existing tools, then advertising their software as though it was itself implementing the underlying functionality.
- Dalewyn 2y agoYou built this? ... I built this.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoConsidering the original tool was abandoned, I think its fair game. They also noted they made some improvements over the original tool. I assume the author wanted a simple tool like the original but found some bugs, dug into the code, realized he could re-write it in what he was comfortable in.
- Gormo 2y agoWhen was FFMpeg ever abandoned?
- giancarlostoro 2y agoWhat? I'm talking specifically about the GUI itself.
- Gormo 2y ago...which is a frontend to FFMpeg's functionality, not a screen recorder in its own right.
- ndom91 2y agoHonestly haven't found a nice video recording UI for wayland. Been using a bash alias with `wf-recorder`. This one doesn't seem to work with Hyprland (wayland) either. Anyone have any other recommendations?
- prmoustache 2y agoobs studio is kind of overkill but works well. You can even record several windows individually and have a different layout than what you actually have on screen.
- TylerE 2y agoOBS is really pretty straightforward once you get your head around, and it's super flexible. I'd hesitate to even call it overkill, as for simple screen recording you only need to touch a few settings one time. and then it's two clicks for the rest of all time. (One to start recording, one to stop, I even have them keybound).
- paulryanrogers 2y agoOBS is intimidating. I found it to be daunting compared to Windows gamebar (Win+G) and MacOS (CMD+Shift+5, pick a mic). The power is worth the pain if you need it. Yet I don't recommend it to normies. Of course Wayland is usually Linux so users are often more technical anyway.
- amelius 2y agoI use simplescreenrecorder on X.
- pquki4 2y agoI would put "for Linux" rather than "written in Rust" in the repository description. One is more important than the other. Priorities.
- SomeRndName11 2y agoEvery time I hear Rust, I recall True Detective (Rustin Cohle).
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoWell, you know what he said about time ...
- SomeRndName11 2y agoYeah, he said it is a flatulence circle.
- vrighter 2y ago"written in rust" is a red flag for me. Even if it is better, the fact that the most important feature to advertise is "written in rust" instead of "supports wayland" or something, tells me the developer's priorities are out of whack.
- mathfailure 2y agoPoor distribution. Snap is cancer, flatpak is crap, no AppImage, no brew package.
- AbuAssar 2y agoactually I enjoy flatpak in gnome