Redesign screen capture option #3401
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Use desktop portal capture option which allows capturing monitors connected to external gpus (common on laptops with dedicated gpus) and supports capturing properly when hdr is enabled. Desktop portal capture allows selecting capture of a window, monitor or screen region. Add -fallback-cpu-encoding yes to use cpu encoding if the system doesn't support gpu encoding. Ideally omarchy should install vaapi drivers which would fix this issue for most users, but some users have a gpu that dont support gpu encoding at all so this option is still needed. Use pgrep with ^ as is done in waybar indicator screen-recording.sh to only grep for gpu-screen-recorder program. Update omarchy-menu to reflect not selecting region/display capture and instead allow capturing only desktop audio or desktop + microphone audio. Fixes basecamp#3367 and basecamp#3303
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Note that I tested recording a window as well which works fine, as long as the monitor isn't rotated. This seems to be an issue in hyprland as obs studio also has the same issue and it works in other wayland compositors. |
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@dec05eba, thank you for your screen capturing improvement efforts. I believe this feature is really handy and useful in any OS. Especially, when I need to quickly show my friends/coworkers how to do something and how exactly. But do you think you can also do a small patch, so when in capturing mode, pressing the keys again would stop and save the video? Because I can't believe, as of now, you need to press the keys, then select an item to stop the capturing. If it's already fixed in the upcoming version, please ignore this message. |
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@sohro-da I added that now |
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Lovely. That CPU fallback is needed. My GPU (7750) won't get hardware acceleration until kernel 6.19. |
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Use desktop portal capture option which allows capturing monitors connected to external gpus (common on laptops with dedicated gpus) and supports capturing properly when hdr is enabled.
Desktop portal capture allows selecting capture of a window, monitor or screen region.
Add -fallback-cpu-encoding yes to use cpu encoding if the system doesn't support gpu encoding. Ideally omarchy should install vaapi drivers which would fix this issue for most users, but some users have a gpu that dont support gpu encoding at all so this option is still needed.
Use pgrep with ^ as is done in waybar indicator screen-recording.sh to only grep for gpu-screen-recorder program.
Update omarchy-menu to reflect not selecting region/display capture and instead allow capturing only desktop audio or desktop + microphone audio.
Stop recording when pressing the record hotkey or navigating to the record menu instead of having to select
a recording option and then stopping the recording.
Fixes #3367, #3303 and #3118