Screen-recorder-script

Basic lightweight screen recorder using ffmpeg.

The idea is to use slop to grab the x, y coordinates on the screen and then put those into ffmpeg and just start recording that area on the screen, toggling it on and off with a hotkey press.

Requirements:

ffmpeg (sudo apt install ffmpeg)
libnotify (sudo apt install libnotify)
slop (https://github.com/naelstrof/slop)

Setup

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SPDUK/screen-recorder-script/master/recorder.sh > ~/screen-recorder.sh && chmod +x ~/screen-recorder.sh

This places the script into your home directory, you can move it anywhere though 🤠.

Bind it to a shortcut on the keyboard (e.g on GNOME)

Open keyboard shortcuts
Give it a name (e.g "Record Area on Screen")
Enter .~/screen-recorder.sh into the "command" input
Add a shortcut & save

Now you can just press that shortcut to start recording an area on the screen, press it again to stop recording 😊

Why not just use [insert GUI here] instead?!

Because for some reason the popular options such as Kazam and SimpleScreenRecorder don't work correctly with my resolution scaled screen. So I made my own script 🤠