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Congrats on making a small, useful, working tool! I like the minimalism.

Maybe you should mention on your GitHub page that it is for Windows.




Adding it to the Post title would be great as well.


In the README: "Windows 10 or newer"


Yes but it's buried down in the `Build` instructions. It should be in the About section: "A simple recording program for Windows with the ability to record screens and audio on your computer." (emphasis mine)


Yikes! win 10 or newer? Win 10 has screen record, with or without audio, built in.

I'm always looking for quick simple browser based things to suggest to friends, and if there is anything cheaper than corel videostudio (when it's on sale) - for win 8, win 7 - which is my preferred tool for the past so many years.

I do suggest putting win 10 only prominently.


there once 2 people shared their own projects about browser recording plugin which very handy, but I lost the thread and can't find it anymore...


To build it, yes. It never mentions it is for running on Windows.


Don't know why you're being downvoted, I build .NET code in Visual Studio on Windows 10 and execute it on my Raspberry Pi frequently. .NET is certainly not a Windows-only technology.


I think that part is assumed as Gnome/Linux and MacOSX have it built in?


Windows 10 has it built-in too, try Win+Alt+R.


Addendum: It's part of the XBox game bar. In case you are wondering where your recordings are, press Win+G.

It didn't work for me the first time - I had to open the game bar first. Also, I had to focus a Window. I cannot record the full desktop with this technique, so it's not quite the same as the linked application.


Or Win+Shift+S. I think you need to be on a newer Windows 10 release for it to work.

Still not as smooth as on macOS, but getting there.


I believe Win+Shift+S is only for capturing images, not video.

I'm on the latest Windows 10 and I still only see static image capture options.


The Windows 10 screen recorder doesn't let you record Windows Explorer.


What is the built in utility you're using on Linux for this? AFAIK, you need to download a separate utility for recording screens on Linux, or it comes with your desktop environment.


They mentioned it is included with Gnome.


Yeah, hence my mention of "desktop environments" as Gnome is just that. Gnome is not Linux.


MacOS does have this ability via QuickTime, but I wish I could find something that records my screen + audio output. There is are some hacky ways to do this on MacOS, but I haven't found anything super reliable yet. Though, I believe this is more or less intentional by Apple.


The built-in Screenshot.app on macOS can record the screen with audio.

See https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/take-a-screenshot-o...


I checked your link, and even did a "command + f" search. I saw no mentions of the words "audio," "sound," "input", nor "output."

Without some sort of fancy hardware or hacky software, I am not sure if it's possible -- at least not as of 6 or so months ago when I was looking for it.

To test:

Use the link above and try to record the audio of something like a YouTube video while recording the screen playing the video. If you can manage to get this to work, please share your results. I would be so obliged. This is not my goal of the software, but it's a quick test to show you what I am looking for.


I'm not sure Gnome desktop has one built in, but i'm sure most other desktop environments don't.


Gnome does have it built it, for as long as I can remember. Simultaneously press Control-Alt-Shift-R.


KDE seems to have a choice of 3 programs for that on the project, but at least on my Debian they weren't installed by default with the minimum KDE. Maybe they come in the full installation.




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