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Top 23 screen-recorder Open-Source Projects
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ShareX
ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.
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InfluxDB
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vokoscreenNG
vokoscreenNG is a powerful screencast creator in many languages to record the screen, an area or a window (Linux only). Recording of audio from multiple sources is supported. With the built-in camera support, you can make your video more personal. Other tools such as systray, magnifying glass, countdown, timer, Showclick and Halo support will help
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t-rec-rs
Blazingly fast terminal recorder that generates animated gif images for the web written in rust
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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ScreenRecorder
⏺️ A simple recording program with the ability to record screens and audio on your computer. (by akon47)
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react-media-recorder
react-media-recorder is a react component with render prop that can be used to record audio/video streams using MediaRecorder API.
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FrameRecorder
Imagine you are drawing pictures or writing a program on your computer. Wouldn't you like to shoot small clips of your work while doing this? That's when Frame Recorder comes to your aid. It will save it for you! See hours of process in just a few minutes!
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townshell
For Townscaper, an application providing additional keyboard shortcuts, tools to manipulate .scape files, screen recording
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recordmydesktop
Fork of recordMyDesktop X Window System desktop recording abandonware, much bug fixing and general cleanups/rewriting has been done. (by recordmydesktop)
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Project mention: The fastest tool for measuring anything on your screen | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-06
I thought it was Kap for a moment https://getkap.co/ similar name, similar product (but that one is ready to use).
Also a bit confused as it seems there is nothing there besides an idea and a landing page.
Project mention: Free and privacy-friendly screen recorder with no limits | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-10
Project mention: Video recording in Wayland (Gnome) is giving me all sorts of problems. | /r/linuxquestions | 2023-05-23Kooha, no matter what setting i change, gives me a recording with frozen images, i opened an issue in their Github, but it's been a week and no support https://github.com/SeaDve/Kooha/issues/242 And looking at the frequency of updates, the project looks unmaintained.
Project mention: Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-03I tried asciinema and I forgot which others, but I eventually used t-rec because it’s able to easily compress to a small size file that I can upload to GitHub (see demo on here https://GitHub.com/Langroid/Langroid) and it also creates mp4 filed that I can upload to loom etc.
https://github.com/sassman/t-rec-rs
Project mention: Fastest Screen Capturing library for Python checkout windows-capture | /r/Python | 2023-12-04I was building an AI for "help" in video games and I found out that most Python screen-capturing libraries are very slow so I made one in Rust here is the repository: https://github.com/NiiightmareXD/windows-capture/tree/main/windows-capture-python
Project mention: Disk write buffering and its interactions with write flushes | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-22One of the things I improved in my recordMyDesktop fork [0] was an awful tendency for the frame cache writer to accumulate heaps of dirty pages until background writeback would flush them out.
I had 16GiB of RAM which meant quite large swaths of dirty pages would become buffered while the SSD sat idle until writeback began. This would cause high-FPS full-screen recordings in particular to just become backlogged and start dropping frames / audio dropouts. Just generally broken behavior for a desktop recorder, especially for a defferred-encode mode that's supposed to be optimized for minimizing system-wide effects/overheads during the recording.
The simple solution I found was to proactively initiate writeback regularly via fdatasync() on the cache fd. [1] I haven't decided yet if more should be done to constrain its buffer cache effects though. The cache files will be read back during encoding in post, so if there's enough RAM it can be desirable to enable reading them back entirely from memory instead of having to hit the disks again... but it would also be nice to let the rest of the system's processes keep their stuff in the page cache. memcg can probably be used to find a balanced solution, but I haven't done any experiments yet. Have any of you handled similar scenarios? What did you do?
[0] https://github.com/recordmydesktop/recordmydesktop
[1] https://github.com/recordmydesktop/recordmydesktop/commit/42...
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source screen-recorder projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ShareX | 27,635 |
| 2 | Kap | 17,545 |
| 3 | screenity | 10,385 |
| 4 | Kooha | 2,189 |
| 5 | Cap | 1,051 |
| 6 | vokoscreenNG | 1,006 |
| 7 | t-rec-rs | 948 |
| 8 | wcap | 683 |
| 9 | screen_capture_lite | 597 |
| 10 | menyoki | 564 |
| 11 | ScreenRecorder | 469 |
| 12 | react-media-recorder | 447 |
| 13 | libvlc-go | 406 |
| 14 | aperture-node | 314 |
| 15 | sorbay | 261 |
| 16 | pypeek | 185 |
| 17 | windows-capture | 114 |
| 18 | camstudio | 92 |
| 19 | fastgrab | 54 |
| 20 | FrameRecorder | 52 |
| 21 | townshell | 43 |
| 22 | sway-interactive-screenshot | 42 |
| 23 | recordmydesktop | 13 |
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