This is a screen recorder that has minimal impact on system performance by recording a monitor using the GPU only, similar to shadowplay on windows. This is the fastest screen recording tool for Linux. This screen recorder works with both X11 and Wayland.
This screen recorder can be used for recording your desktop offline, for live streaming and for nvidia-like instant replay, where only the last few minutes are saved.
Supported video codecs:
Supported audio codecs:
Note: Opus and FLAC audio codecs are disabled at the moment because of temporary issues.
Recording a monitor requires (restricted) root access which means that you have to install GPU Screen Recorder system-wide: flatpak install flathub --system com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder and pkexec needs to be installed on the system and a polkit agent needs to be running.
Recording a single window is only possible on X11. Hotkeys are not supported on wayland either (wayland doesn't really support this). Use X11 if you want a proper desktop experience in general.
AV1 is currently not supported in the flatpak for Nvidia since GPU Screen Recorder uses an older ffmpeg version to support older Nvidia cards. Install GPU Screen Recorder from source or from AUR if you want to use AV1 on Nvidia.
On some Intel integrated GPUs the video can appear glitched when recording on Wayland. The only known workaround at the moment is to record on X11.
Videos are in variable framerate format. Very out of date video players might have an issue playing such videos. It's recommend to use MPV to play such videos, otherwise you might experience stuttering in the video. You can select constant frame rate mode in advanced view if you need it.
If the video doesn't play or you get green/yellow overlay then your video player is missing H264/HEVC video codec. Either install the video codecs or use mpv.
If the video is glitched with checkerboard pattern and you are using and Intel integrated GPU on wayland then this is a known issue and right now the only solution is to record on X11 instead.
If H264/HEVC video encoding option is not available on your AMD/Intel system but you know that your supports those codecs then you may need to install mesa-extra freedesktop runtime by running this command: "flatpak install --system org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default//23.08-extra".
On NVIDIA systems the flatpak NVIDIA driver needs to match the systems NVIDIA driver version or the NVIDIA driver will fail to properly load in flatpaks. Make sure you update flatpak on your system with: "flatpak update", or if that doesn't fix it you can try to install the specific flatpak NVIDIA driver version version that matches your systems NVIDIA driver version by running: "flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-version", for example "flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-550-54-14". You can find which NVIDIA driver version is running on your system by running "cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version".
Fix audio sync regression when using mixed audio
Fix possible audio desync after some time for some users
Fix nvidia x11 monitor capture breaking after suspend/monitor reconfiguration (even after applying nvidia preserve video memory on suspend)
Fix recording breaking when updating flatpak on some systems (where $HOME is symlinked to another location), requires password prompt update
Add the option to not record cursor
Fix minor permissions issue
Better error message for missing h264/hevc, ignore user nvidia vaapi setting
Add option to pause recording
Fix monitor capture on AMD/Intel or NVIDIA Wayland on some distros, such as OpenSUSE
Fix possible crash when recording multiple audio sources (merged)
Fix incorrect color on some nvidia wayland systems running kde plasma (support 10-bit color depth)
Nvidia x11: disable screen direct record option, as there is an nvidia driver bug that causes some games to freeze/crash with this option
Use opengl context instead of egl2, might fix program startup not working for some users
Intel: attempt to fix glitched graphics on some intel gpus. I dont know, ask intel why they are weird
AMD/Intel wayland: fix broken colors when system uses 10-bit
NVIDIA: Workaround new nvidia driver bug that causes recording of a small window to freeze recording.
AMD/Intel: fix capture issue on some systems
AMD/Intel: Fix too dark video in the flatpak version.
AMD/Intel: Better color accuracy.
Fix capture on wlroots based wayland compositors. Fix cursor offset in amd/intel capture.
Support cursor capture on AMD/Intel on Wayland. Attempt to fix multi monitor offset capture in some cases.
Support cursor capture on AMD/Intel on Wayland.
Experimental wayland support on AMD/Intel/NVIDIA. Hotkeys not supported.
Attempt to fix screen recording when multiple graphics cards are connected
Show proper error when running on wayland. Preparing for wayland support.
AMD/Intel: fix multi monitor capture coordinate being incorrect for some GPU driver versions.
Attempt to fix a recent nvidia (cuda) driver bug on RTX cards that causes a freeze when stopping recording.
Fix issue where the application freezes and keyboard freezes when selecting a new hotkey and another widget is clicked.
Attempt to fix possible issue on some systems with amd/intel where capture region is incorrect when multiple monitors are connected.
Attempt to fix possible audio/video sync on NVIDIA after recording for a long time. Temporary disable opus/flac because it breaks when recording multiple audio inputs.
AMD/Intel: Add support for capturing cursor when recording a monitor. Fix some cases of capture being glitched when using multiple monitors.
Enable AMD/Intel monitor capture. Requires the flatpak to be installed system-wide and it requires restricted root access. Record a single window if you dont like these restrictions. Videos created on AMD/Intel should be played with MPV otherwise it might have issues such as stuttering.
Add experimental support for AMD/Intel. Quality might not be well tuned yet and the video is in variable framerate mode, which might cause issues with some out of date video editing software or video players. Recording on AMD/intel is currently limited to a window (monitor capture is not possible yet).
Show error when using wayland (because wayland is not supported)
Add option to workaround a NVIDIA driver "bug" that causes framerate to drop a bit when recording (overclock memory transfer rate back to normal)
Make it clear when graphics card is not supported
Fix broken replay when recording with audio (possibly broken in normal recording as well)
Allow choosing between mp4, flv and mkv for record/replay. mkv survives system crashes
Re-enable screen-direct, disable h264 forced fallback and use p6 again
Attempt to fix stuttering in video that can happen sometimes (especially when vsync is enabled)
Properly fallback to h264 if hevc is not supported by the gpu
Fix livestreaming: flv does not properly fallback to h264
Use lower preset on older gpus (kepler) and switch to h264 if h265 is not supported
Tune options to try and reduce file size
Better tune quality options for different resolutions
Fix crash caused by invalid memory write when recording audio
Fix possible pulseaudio crash
Fixes some streaming issues (mostly metadata missing)