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@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ This software works on x11 and wayland. Hotkeys are also not supported on waylan ### TEMPORARY ISSUES 1) Videos are in variable framerate format. Use MPV to play such videos, otherwise you might experience stuttering in the video if you are using a buggy video player. You can try saving the video into a .mkv file instead as some software may have better support for .mkv files (such as kdenlive). You can use the "-fm cfr" option to to use constant framerate mode. ### AMD/Intel/Wayland root permission -When recording a window under AMD/Intel no special user permission is required, however when recording a monitor (or when using wayland) the program needs root permission (to access KMS).\ -To make this safer, the part that needs root access has been moved to its own executable (to make it as small as possible).\ +When recording a window under AMD/Intel no special user permission is required, however when recording a monitor (or when using wayland) the program needs root permission (to access KMS). +This is safe in GPU Screen Recorder as the part that needs root access has been moved to its own small program that only does one thing. For you as a user this only means that if you installed GPU Screen Recorder as a flatpak then a prompt asking for root password will show up when you start recording. +Note that this only applies to when recording a monitor. On Wayland you can use the desktop portal capture option to record a monitor without root permission. # Performance On a system with a i5 4690k CPU and a GTX 1080 GPU:\ When recording Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild at 4k, fps drops from 30 to 7 when using OBS Studio + nvenc, however when using this screen recorder the fps remains at 30.\ @@ -25,9 +26,6 @@ When recording GTA V at 4k on highest settings, fps drops from 60 to 23 when usi It is recommended to save the video to a SSD because of the large file size, which a slow HDD might not be fast enough to handle. ## Note about optimal performance on NVIDIA NVIDIA driver has a "feature" (read: bug) where it will downclock memory transfer rate when a program uses cuda (or nvenc, which uses cuda), such as GPU Screen Recorder. See https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/ for more information and how to overcome this. -## Hotkey -Hotkeys are currently only supported on X11. Most Wayland compositors are missing a way to bind hotkeys programatically. If you want to have hotkeys then you can bind hotkeys in your Wayland compositors settings. -Bind a key to `killall -SIGINT gpu-screen-recorder` to stop recording (also saves the video when recording a regular video). Bind another key to `killall -SIGUSR1 gpu-screen-recorder` to save a replay and another key to `killall -SIGUSR2 gpu-screen-recorder` to pause/unpause the recording (when recording a regular video). ## Installation This program depends on [GPU Screen Recorder](https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/) which needs to be installed first.\ |