1y ago

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.
  
  OBS is extremely bloated for simple screen recording.
  And a browser isn't??
  
  Features ≠ Bloat
  
  Which dependency of OBS make you say that? Most of them are already probably installed on your system anyway.
  
  What do you mean by bloated? Isn't it 2 clicks at most after the one time next-next-finish setup?
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.
- 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.
- Online screen recorders already exist too, I also don't think it really needs any server side logic either.
You seem profoundly confused on what the hell you actually want
https://github.com/alyssaxuu/screenity
- Awesome!
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).
- Thanks for an actually useful comment :D
  It might be something like Photopea, that can also just be downloaded and ran locally.
If you want a screen recorder, try Kooha. Not exactly sure what you want, exactly.
Service as a software substitute
- 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.
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=online+screen+recorder

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