[HN Gopher] ffscreencast - a screencast CLI-tool with video over...
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       ffscreencast - a screencast CLI-tool with video overlay and
       multimonitor support
        
       Author : app4soft
       Score  : 97 points
       Date   : 2021-01-24 12:23 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | kristopolous wrote:
       | I have a fairly similar hackable script in my tools repo on
       | GitHub for the curious.
       | 
       | Essentially I wanted to be able to pipe the music I was playing
       | into the stream and the microphone input.
       | 
       | Also I wanted to allow for a secondary camera (droidcam for me)
       | at leisure.
       | 
       | I suppose OBS is better if you spend the time with it.
       | 
       | https://github.com/kristopolous/tools/blob/master/bin/screen...
       | 
       | There's a preferences file example here
       | https://github.com/kristopolous/tools/blob/master/bin/.scree...
        
       | timvisee wrote:
       | Based on it's name, combining it with ffsend [1], would make it a
       | fun quick screen sharing tool. /s
       | 
       | [1] https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend
        
       | _Gyan_ wrote:
       | The last commit is from Mar 2017. Much of the activity in Issues
       | also ends at that time. Looks abandoned rather than matured.
        
         | breakfastduck wrote:
         | In fairness if it does indeed do what's advertised then there
         | isn't necessarily a need to continue working on it.
        
       | nitrogen wrote:
       | How well/fast does ffmpeg's x11grab work? I've got a hand-rolled
       | solution for Linux screen recording that can do 120+fps, but it's
       | very brittle.
        
       | pininja wrote:
       | This has a ffmpeg command generator feature where it'll tell you
       | what it would run. I could find that useful in trying to fix
       | anything broken with it.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2021-01-24 23:00 UTC)