Spyke

A screen recorder in the Browser?

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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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.

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sh.itjust.works

OBS is extremely bloated for simple screen recording.

And a browser isn't??

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lemmy.ml

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

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lemm.ee

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.

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

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

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lemmy.ml

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).

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Thanks for an actually useful comment :D

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

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

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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.

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