...I don't utilize or know much about OBS, just trying to see which applications work or don't in FreeBSD. Somehow "simplescreenrecorder", which functions as intended in FreeBSD, have no issues with capturing and recording live desktop sessions, including video and sound.
Thank you for the suggestion, today, end of 2025 I was able to install and run a recording in SSR (SimpleScreeRecorder) in literally zero time lost browsing where to click. Very intuitive. Simple software for a simple task. I tried first OBS and Kdenlive : they are far bigger and more powerful...
I did freebsd-update and pkg upgrade. Plus, I've installed simplescreenrecorder-0.4.4.9_3. which maybe did something to ffmpeg that was part of its install.
Interesting info from
pkg info simplescreenrecorder-0.4.4.9_3
Features:
* Graphical user interface (Qt-based).
* Faster than VLC and...
...video filters for the GPU
qt5-multimedia-5.15.5p1 Qt audio, video, radio and camera support module (KDE patched)
simplescreenrecorder-0.4.4 Screen video recorder
vmaf-2.3.1 Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion...
The big two video recorders obs-studio and simplescreenrecorder depend on sound systems that are not native to FreeBSD. I like many others don't care to use Pulseaudio, ALSA, or JACK. Is there any recorders that support OSS at least as a build option that I'm not aware of?
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desktop recording
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sound
...Recoll (real time indexing of content) deskutils/recoll
Remmina (for RDP to Windows) net/remmina
SimpleScreenRecorder multimedia/simplescreenrecorder
Spectacle graphics/spectacle
unfuck-google for Firefox – in the Wayback Machine
– that's a shortlist, largely based on what's most frequently...
Thanks, I already have Handbrake, which can convert SimpleScreenRecorder recordings into files that are less likely to fail with Google Photos.
I'd like to understand what triggers the failure.
https://github.com/MaartenBaert/ssr/issues/898
Any specific reason why you're deadset on this when we have already have at least two applications already ported offering screen capturing functionality (I haven't tested them personally)?
multimedia/simplescreenrecorder
multimedia/obs-studio
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Error code fmt.unplayable could refer to the file format as well as to the encoder for video and audio. If SimpleScreenRecorder allows it, choose other options for those. You can find info on your current settings with command ffprobe <your video file>.
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