Elegantly record your screen
Capture your screen in a intuitive and straightforward way without distractions.
Kooha is a simple screen recorder with a minimal interface. You can simply click the record button without having to configure a bunch of settings.
The main features of Kooha include the following:
- 🎙️ Record microphone, desktop audio, or both at the same time
- 📼 Support for WebM, MP4, GIF, and Matroska formats
- 🖥️ Select a monitor, a window, or a portion of the screen to record
- 🗔 Multiple sources selection
- 🛠️ Configurable saving location, pointer visibility, frame rate, and delay
- 🚀 Experimental hardware-accelerated encoding
There are many possibilities on why it may not be working. You may not have
the runtime requirements mentioned below installed, or your distro doesn't
support it. For troubleshooting purposes the screen cast compatibility page
of xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
wiki may be helpful in determining if your distro
has support for it out of the box. If it does, but it still doesn't work, you
can also check for the troubleshooting checklist.
These features are disabled default due to stability issues and possible
performance degradation. However, they can be enabled manually by running Kooha
with KOOHA_EXPERIMENTAL
env var set to 1
. (e.g. KOOHA_EXPERIMENTAL=1 flatpak run io.github.seadve.Kooha
).
Together with KOOHA_EXPERIMENTAL
env var, it is also needed
to set GST_VAAPI_ALL_DRIVERS
to 1
to enable the needed drivers.
Additionally, gstreamer-vaapi
is required to be installed on your system. If Kooha is installed through Flatpak,
it is as simple as running flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.GStreamer.gstreamer-vaapi
to install the package.
Due to flickering, this has been disabled by default, but can be enabled through
KOOHA_EXPERIMENTAL
env var.
- pipewire
- gstreamer-plugin-pipewire
- xdg-desktop-portal
- xdg-desktop-portal-(e.g., gtk, kde, wlr)
GNOME Builder is the environment used for developing this application. It can use Flatpak manifests to create a consistent building and running environment cross-distro. Thus, it is highly recommended you use it.
- Download GNOME Builder.
- In Builder, click the "Clone Repository" button at the bottom, using
https://github.com/SeaDve/Kooha.git
as the URL. - Click the build button at the top once the project is loaded.
The following packages are required to build Kooha:
- meson
- ninja
- appstream-glib (for checks)
- cargo
- x264 (for MP4)
- gstreamer
- gstreamer-plugins-base
- gstreamer-plugins-ugly (for MP4)
- gstreamer-vaapi (for hardware acceleration)
- glib2
- gtk4
- libadwaita
git clone https://github.com/SeaDve/Kooha.git
cd Kooha
meson _build --prefix=/usr/local
ninja -C _build install
You can help Kooha translate into your native language. If you found any typos or think you can improve a translation, you can use the Weblate platform.
Kooha is free and will always be for everyone to use. If you like the project and would like to support and fund it, you may donate through Liberapay.
RecApp greatly inspired the creation of Kooha. And also, a warm thank you to all the contributors and translators from Weblate.