Recording

What is a Recording?

Recording allows you to record your desktop screen at 30 or 60 FPS. If you wish, you can open your camera and include it in the video with a single click. Currently, video recording is performed in .mp4 format only.

Recorder’s features

Screen recording at 30 or 60 FPS (.mp4).
Combining Screen and Camera recording.
Possibility to delay the start of recording up to 180 seconds.
Instantly save the recording wherever you want.

Shortcomings, Features planned to be added later

Adding the sound of the computer and microphone to the screen recording.
Display of the mouse cursor in the video.
Adding other video codecs.
Ability to record screens in different formats (.avi3, .mpeg, etc.).
Providing less CPU and RAM usage by distributing across different threads instead of doing all the operations on the same thread.

Supported systems

A linux operating system from the Debian distribution.
Screen with a resolution of 1366 X 768 (15.6 inch).

Technologies we use

This application was written in Python 3.7. In order for the application to run, you must have Python and the necessary Python modules installed on your device.

Python downloads : https://www.python.org/downloads/

In order to install the necessary Python modules, run the following code while in the same directory as the file named requirements.txt.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Python modules and their purposes.

from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QFileDialog
from time import sleep as sl
import numpy as np
import threading
import skvideo.io
import datetime
import mss
import sys
import cv2

Python module	Purpose of usage
PyQt5	GUI programming
time	Time operations
numpy	Tensors, combining images
threading	To be able to do all operations at the same time
skvideo	Saving the created video
datetime	Date transactions
mss	Desktop screen recording
sys	System arguments
cv2	Camera record