FOSSR

A Free, Open-Source Screen Recorder for Mac OS X 10.8+.

Download here

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Features

Records the entire display
Choose which display to record
Set the framerate/FPS (5, 10, 15, 25, 30, 45, 60 FPS)
Show/hide the mouse
Show/hide mouse clicks
Remove duplicate frames (for smoother-looking video)
Countdown from 0 to 10 seconds

How it works

Mac OS X and iOS have a framework named AVFoundation. This framework handles audio and video input/output, such as audio players or video camera capture. Here is what goes on in the meat of the code:

It creates an AVCaptureSession, this allows inputs of audio and video, quite necessary
It creates an AVCaptureScreenInput, this allows us to capture the screen
It adds the AVCaptureScreenInput to the session, otherwise our session wouldn't have anything in it
It initiates a AVCaptureMovieFileOutput, so we can export the captured screen data to a file as an .mov
It adds the AVCaptureMovieFileOutput to the session
It runs the session
Once the user clicks Record and selects a place to record to, it begins to record and write data once Stop is clicked

Screenshots

Main Window

Record to window

Countdown (an optional feature)

Configure window

To close the window, click the red circle or push Escape.

Building for yourself

Make sure Xcode is installed
Download the repo as a ZIP or clone the repo
Open the project in Xcode and run the project
Enjoy!

Planned features

Italics indicate a urgent future bug fix.

A demo video on YouTube
Set the quality of the video
Microphone recording
Record a rectangular selection on the screen
Record a window?

The .circles file in `icons/`

.circles files can be created/edited/viewed with CircleIcons. I am not affiliated or endorsed with the developer of CircleIcons.

Licenses

Since I'm too lazy to put the licenses here, I'll provide links to them.

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