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A screen recorder in the Browser? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OBS

[+] [email protected] -11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

OBS is extremely bloated for simple screen recording.

There is GPU Screen recorder which I currently use, and it is fine. But that is pretty much the only one.

[–] atzanteol 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OBS is extremely bloated for simple screen recording.

And a browser isn't??

[+] [email protected] -6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean I already use a browser all the time.

[–] atzanteol 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I guess the word "bloat" has no meaning anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

"bloat" = it has features I don't like

[+] [email protected] -10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Highly disagree. Even though bloat may not matter much on your $10000 PC, it still gets worse over time and creates more and more ewaste for no reason.

EDIT: yep there are a lot of laziness and bloat supporters in this community for sure

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I've ran OBS on a 5 year old Chromebook with 32GB storage using Linux to stream to Twitch, I think most computers are capable of running OBS to record a video.

[+] [email protected] -13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about OBS. I'm talking about the "bloat doesn't matter. Just buy a new PC" philosophy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Noone in this chain implied that

[+] [email protected] -8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes because atzanteol said it directly

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The idea that a web application for screen recording is less bloat than OBS is absurd. As this was the idea presented by OP, atzanteol reacted by figuratively saying that the word no longer had any meaning. Given the context, this was quite clearly not an attempt to downplay the effects or severity of software bloat, but simply a figurative use of the phrase meant to point out how badly the word bloat had been misused. You completely misinterpreted their comment. Then, when this was pointed out to you, you proceeded to do the Reddit thing of mockingly editing your original downvoted comment, successfully making an ass out of yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] atzanteol 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry but I did not and still do not see that atzanteol's comment was about web screen recorders. It can be my English or it can be your desire to "be like the crowd" and fight me. Idk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its your english

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

May be

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Features ≠ Bloat

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Which dependency of OBS make you say that? Most of them are already probably installed on your system anyway.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You lost me on the part where we create an in-browser screen recorder... and then proceed to package it natively.

If you are just lookin for a light screen recording utility, I suggest giving Spectacle a try.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Online screen recorders already exist too, I also don't think it really needs any server side logic either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Spectacle only runs on KDE afaik, which is not the problem. But it also doesnt really compress much, I dont know if it uses the GPU too.

Agree spectacle + ffmpeg might be a good solution with postprocessing.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets 8 points 2 months ago

You seem profoundly confused on what the hell you actually want

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/alyssaxuu/screenity

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Awesome!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

RecordScreen.io works for me when I want to do that. It's supposed to record locally (I've tried and have seen no data leaving my computer, but maybe should try taking it offline while recording, see if it breaks).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for an actually useful comment :D

It might be something like Photopea, that can also just be downloaded and ran locally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you want a screen recorder, try Kooha. Not exactly sure what you want, exactly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Service as a software substitute

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

No, it is not a service if it runs locally in the browser.

And even less if you can load it from the system into the browser.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=online+screen+recorder