Working video screen recording in KDE plasma wayland?

It doesn’t have to be fancy, but I haven’t found anything at all so far.

Simple screen recorder doesn’t work?

Alas no. It gives you a warning right away and doesn’t work.

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Okay… i didn’t realize it’s an issue with wayland. :thinking:

green-recorder-git works.

Doesn’t work for me. The project is abandoned and I run into https://github.com/mhsabbagh/green-recorder/issues/92#issuecomment-383688122 Does it work for you?

I’m not using wayland it was just a suggestion. :man_shrugging:

Appreciate the effort. I tested several things, searched online, but at this point I’m trying to find a person who actually says “I have it working”.

The current status of Wayland is Not Yet ReadyTM (pretty much like the Hurd). You can use it, but expect things not to work. If that bothers you (personally, it would drive me nuts), I suggest sticking to xorg. Sure, xorg is rubbish (just like the Linux kernel, tbh), but it Just WorksTM.

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I’m aware that Wayland is “work in progress”, but there’s a lot of activity regarding KDE recently, so I’m giving it a shot. There are a lot of papercuts, no doubt about that, but it has it upsides too (biggest for me: per display scaling on mixed DPI setups, mouse scrolling speed setting).

So I’m trying to figure things out. If there isn’t a solution that’s OK, but I have to ask. :slight_smile:

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@Schlaefer
OBS Studio

I found that, was hopeful and tested, but it didn’t work for me (black screen). OBS itself on wayland doesn’t seem to be fully ready yet (currently tracks down to). If it actually works for someone feedback would be welcome.

If Phoronix say’s it works i trust them.

Love phoronix, but they essentially rehashing a blog post without testing it themself. But that’s why I’m asking, if someone has it actually working, I want to set it up too.

According to KDE it’s supposed to be working.

New Features

Screen recording and screencasting now works on Wayland for compatible applications (e.g. OBS Studio and more to come) (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.20)

I understand that facilities were put into place. But has it somebody actually running and working here?

Unknown… I use simple screen recorder on KDE but i don’t use wayland.

Are there any news here?
I’m looking for a simple screen recorder with good quality.
I know OBS and I used it on Windows but I don’t like it much.

Good question. I’m mainly using OBS, which works great now. Kooha is the only good and easy alternative I’m aware of.

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