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If you are

- recording your screen but not streaming

- you are not customizing what goes into your screen

Then use something else. GPU screen recorder has a lower overhead and produces much smoother recordings: https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/

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Looks neat but seems like a complete hassle to get up and running and maintain, unless if your goal is to learn how screen recorders work.

What? The link says that you can install it from flathub (https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder) so you just have to click install and then record. Since its in flathub its also available in many distros "app store"

i already have snaps why do i need this flat thing?

You dont need it, it's just one way to install it. You can just download the appimage and use that as well. The point was to say that @aizk comment was ridiculous

Not gonna lie - I read this line

> If you are running another distro then you can run sudo ./install.sh, but you need to manually install the dependencies, as described below.

And then I just skimmed the rest, because I assumed it would be about manual dependency installation which I am not interested in.

Odd that the easiest installation method listed on line 3 was not the first line in the installation text, that's not a great DX.

Also - I'm on MacOS, and the OBS blog updated I shared was for MacOS.

I was using an AppImage

OBS is great, it was my go to recording tool. But my videos were choppy until I started using GPU screen recorder.

The linked post is about a new Metal-based renderer for OBS Studio on MacOS. The software you linked is for Linux.

I think the point extends well beyond the specific app/OS example though, even though the article talks to macOS exclusively. For macOS and Windows there are built in tools which offer direct recording functionality. To trigger on macOS Command+Shift+5 (or launch it via QuickTime as jasonlotito noted), on Windows Win+Shift+S. Both of these utilize the same OS APIs OBS Studio uses to get the screen content, but they skip the step of needing a renderer at all.

I've had a lot of issues using the QuickTime screen recorder, especially when it comes to recording from an iOS simulator for app/game development and needing to produce preview videos.

You need to install a 3rd party software Blackhole to even get desktop audio for screen recording with QuickTime. After about an hour of troubleshooting settings I gave up and used OBS, esp since I was in a public space at the time and the Blackhole config disabled my headphones and for a moment you could hear a loud YouTube tutorial playing through my Mac speakers. Also the shortcut to stop screen recording on QuickTime sucks, it’s like CMD+CTRL+ESC and you need to have it memorized because there’s no “Stop Recording” button option

It shows up in the notification area bar (top) as an ambiguous circle with a square in it.

> get desktop audio for screen recording with QuickTime

A famously missing macOS feature. Loopback is yonder: https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/

> the shortcut to stop screen recording on QuickTime sucks, it’s like CMD+CTRL+ESC

I just stop it from the menu bar, then on the resultant video press Cmd-T (trim) to lop off that footage.

Why not just use quicktime?

Edit: I think you might have skipped reading the post. It's about OBS on MacOS. Where quicktime exists. Your suggestion seems geared toward Linux.

QuickTime cannot record system audio output without shenanigans.

Yep, if you want to do something more than screen recording, just screen recording won't work. Nor will the OP's comment.

Does anyone know if AMD 8845HS with 780M graphics (running fedora) can into this? Ideally very low system resources used, I only have 16GB RAM, also ideally very little storage space used, one or two frames per second is enough, ideally should compress even more if nothing has changed in the screen for a while, also ideally should create a new file every eight hours or so.

It should work yes. Fedora by default disables hardware accelerated video encoding but if you use flatpak versions of software (in this case the flatpak version of gpu screen recorder) then it should work. Even 12 year old gpus work.

Lower framerate doesn't really decrease video size because of how videos work, but you can set bitrate quality for the recorded video to reduce the video quality a bit to decrease the size.

NVIDIA has a "lower overhead" screen recorder, no? It's alt + f9 or something. AFAIK It's supposed to be optimized, because they own the stack and all. It's probably only on Windows though.

If all you need is screen recording, as per your parent, and you're on windows the default screenshot tool (Win + Shift + S) does screen recording.

This is great, thanks!

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