I wondered, Browsers work really well, are already there anyways, have all the GPU stuff etc already dealt with. They also have portal support so Wayland works great.

It could use the Browsers screencast ability on all platforms, and run with Javascript and WASM.

The stuff could be installed in a local Podman container and thus also work natively on Linux.

Do you know an app that does this, client-side?


Thanks to the actually helpful people:

screenity, GPLv3, has some nice features

recordscreen.io some random webservice, the recording is supposedly done in the browser. Proprietary.

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
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    I didnt understand that statement though.

    A browser is simply the bottom line. Its the stuff I always open up. It is always in RAM.

    Firefox has more stable screencast capabilities than many recorders.

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      Feature creep is a hallmark of “software bloat”. Using a web browser to do something completely unrelated to it’s core functionality is pretty much the definition of “bloat”.

      Obs is purpose-built to do the thing you want to do. That it also has features you don’t want does not make it “bloated”.

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        Fair points. A video recorder for me doesnt need internet access while a browser obviously has it. A browser needs that for me as I use it for video calls, even though it is a bit strange to do this.

        But thats it, browsers are multimedia platforms today and using another tool additionally to that doesnt change anything.