wf-recorder is a command-line screen recording utility for wlroots-based Wayland compositors.
It captures video via wlr-screencopy and uses FFmpeg for encoding, with options for audio capture, region selection, output selection, codec tuning, muxers, and VAAPI GPU encoding.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Records wlroots-based Wayland compositors
- Uses FFmpeg for video and audio encoding
- Supports full screen, selected output, and region capture
- Can record screen and audio simultaneously
- Lets users specify video and audio codecs
- Supports muxer selection including video4linux2 output
- Offers VAAPI GPU encoding support
- Packaged by many Linux distributions
Website: https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder
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Developer: Ilia Bozhinov
License: MIT License
wf-recorder is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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