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A screen recorder in the Browser? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The idea that a web application for screen recording is less bloat than OBS is absurd. As this was the idea presented by OP, atzanteol reacted by figuratively saying that the word no longer had any meaning. Given the context, this was quite clearly not an attempt to downplay the effects or severity of software bloat, but simply a figurative use of the phrase meant to point out how badly the word bloat had been misused. You completely misinterpreted their comment. Then, when this was pointed out to you, you proceeded to do the Reddit thing of mockingly editing your original downvoted comment, successfully making an ass out of yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I didnt understand that statement though.

A browser is simply the bottom line. Its the stuff I always open up. It is always in RAM.

Firefox has more stable screencast capabilities than many recorders.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Feature creep is a hallmark of "software bloat". Using a web browser to do something completely unrelated to it's core functionality is pretty much the definition of "bloat".

Obs is purpose-built to do the thing you want to do. That it also has features you don't want does not make it "bloated".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Fair points. A video recorder for me doesnt need internet access while a browser obviously has it. A browser needs that for me as I use it for video calls, even though it is a bit strange to do this.

But thats it, browsers are multimedia platforms today and using another tool additionally to that doesnt change anything.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry but I did not and still do not see that atzanteol's comment was about web screen recorders. It can be my English or it can be your desire to "be like the crowd" and fight me. Idk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Its your english

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

May be