Botspot Screen Recorder is an all-in-one screen recording utility for wlroots-based Wayland compositors such as LabWC, Wayfire, and Sway.
The software is a lightweight shell script which brings together wf-recorder, ffmpeg, MPV, PipeWire, and YAD to record the screen, webcam, microphone, system audio, or combinations of these sources.
It is particularly pitched at Raspberry Pi users and other systems without strong hardware-accelerated video encoding.
Key Features
- Record the screen on wlroots-based Wayland compositors
- Capture webcam video, microphone input, and system audio
- Record screen and webcam together
- Crop a fixed rectangular section of the screen
- Mirror the webcam feed
- Custom frame rate and quality settings
- Downscale output to reduce CPU usage and file size
- Convert recordings to MKV, MP4, GIF, WEBP, MP3, and WAV
- Saves presets for future sessions
- Auto-updates via git pull
Website: https://github.com/Botspot/botspot-screen-recorder
Support:
Developer: Jaron Rosenau
License: Not specified
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