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How to capture screen on Wayland with pipewire?

Shmerl 4 Jul

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Any recommendation how to capture screen using some minimalist tools like ffmpeg? I didn't find any info on ffmpeg / pipewire integration. Is there anything else (besides using something full blown OBS)?

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kit89 4 Jul

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Pipewire should act as a PulseAudio system.

If you type:

 

pactl info

You should see something around the lines of:

 

Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.53)

Server Version: 15.0.0

Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz

Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right

Default Sink: alsa_output.usb-MOTU_M4_M4AE0CDBMD-00.analog-surround-40

If you do, then following the documentation here: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/PulseAudio should be fine.

I tested this with my own machine and it works as expected.

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Shmerl 4 Jul

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That's for audio. I need to capture the screen. OBS works, but I was interested in something more lightweight.

Last edited by Shmerl on 4 July 2022 at 8:53 pm UTC

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kit89 4 Jul

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This documentation shows how to use ffmpeg to capture the screen: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop

You can capture both audio and the screen with one command operation, or you can trigger screen and audio capture independently and then mix the two together later with a Video Editor.

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Shmerl 4 Jul

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Nah, no good either. x11grab is X11 only obviously. And they don't have Pipewire integration. The only other option is kmsgrab, but that had some kind of issue with pixel format.

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Shmerl 5 Jul

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I ended up using OBS for now. It works very well actually. I'm surprised there no some CLI tool for that though.

Last edited by Shmerl on 5 July 2022 at 3:43 am UTC

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LilaBortz 15 Jul

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I am using GNOME to capture the screen. Because it is the quick and easiest way to record your screen. But it doesn't record any sound tho.

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