SDSR - Simple Desktop Screen Recorder

A Simple Screen Recorder for Linux, written in Qt6

Features

• Backends
  • XDG Capture
  • Wayland capture (screen-copy)
  • V4L2 Video
  • Game Capture (eglcapture)
• Full configurable resolution, codec, size and bitrate

Dependencies

Mandatory

• Qt6
• Gstreamer
• CMake (Build only)

Optional

• GStreamer runtime plugins:
  • gst-plugins-base (appsrc/appsink, videoconvert, audioconvert, audioresample, audiomixer, volume)
  • gst-plugins-good (pulsesrc, matroska/mp4/flv muxers, etc.)
  • gst-plugins-ugly (x264enc) and/or gst-libav (avenc_aac, other codecs)
  • gst-plugins-bad (srtsink, rtmpsink, mpegtsmux, voaacenc), as needed for streaming
  • gst-plugin-pipewire (XDG Portal capture)
  • At least one AAC encoder: avenc_aac, voaacenc, fdkaacenc or faac
• PulseAudio or PipeWire with pipewire-pulse for audio capture
• eglcapture (Game Capture)
• grim (wlroots screen detection)

Build

git clone --recursive https://codeberg.org/itszariep/sdsr-recorder
cd sdsr-recorder

cmake -B build
cmake --build build