Screencast

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A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a "video screen capture", and often includes audio narration. It is distinguished from the term screenshot: a screenshot produces a picture of a single computer screen, whereas a screencast is a video of what appears on the screen over time and can include audio narration.

Screencast Software

• ScreenRec
• OBS Studio
• CamStudio
• QuickTime
• Screencast-O-Matic
• Camtasia
• ScreenFlow
• ActivePresenter
• ffmpeg#How to record the screen
• wf-recorder - A recorder for wayland.
• wl-screenrec - High performance screen recorder for wlroots Wayland.
• scrot - Command-line screenshots
  • PyAutoGUI - Provides screenshot functions using scrot
• gstreamer
• PipeWire
• Peek - an animated GIF recorder
• kazam - A very simple Linux screen recorder
• Loom
• Snapify - Open-source screen recording app (Loom alternative)
• Cap - Screen recording & sharing tool, an open-source alternative to Loom
• ScrapeServ - An API server that converts a given URL into a screenshot
• VHS - Your CLI home video recorder 📼

Video Editing Software

• 9 Best Screen Recorders for Linux in 2020
• Free Screen Recorder
• OpenShot
• Kdenlive
• Olive

See also

• Media streaming
• Live streaming
• Screen capture
• Screenshot Mockup Tools - A collection of tools for dressing up software screenshots for use on homepages or product pages
• webreel - A CLI tool that automatically records browser demos as MP4 videos

Favorite site

• Wikipedia (en) Screencast
• Screen capture - ArchWiki