EasySR screen recorder

I used EasyCast to record the first video in the EasyOS series on YouTube. I managed to get away with it in the first video; however, tried another recording and it is awful. EasyCast leaves artifacts all over the screen, and incomplete rendering of windows.

Here are blog posts about EasyCast:

"EasyCast screen recorder fixed"
https://bkhome.org/news/202606/easycast-screen-recorder-fixed.html

"EasyCast 2.0 screen recorder"
https://bkhome.org/news/202203/easycast-20-screen-recording.html

It uses the 'recordmydesktop' CLI utility, which is just not good enough. However, there is an alternative method of screen recording that works remarkably well; ffmpeg's "x11grab" feature.

Getting on to 3.30am, but got it done; have written a new screen recorder app called EasySR. It is in the "Multimedia" menu:

I have kept the options very simple, with the intention of making recordings suitable for uploading to YouTube:

Decided not to manipulate the video proportions; ffmpeg will record at the native screen resolution, and only scaling the width. The height will automatically scale so as to keep the video proportions. I think that YouTube will accept this.

After clicking the "START" button, recording begins and there is a flashing red ball in the tray:

...click on the red ball, stops recording, and there is a completion message:

A great thing is that there is no post-processing; ffmpeg generates the MP4 video on-the-fly, so as soon as click the red ball, the completion message appears. I have only tested on my Zenbook laptop; don't know how well on-the-fly processing will work with an older CPU. Probably the frames per second will drop.    

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