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Scott asked "It would be cool if the app would even hide it's presence in the deskbar when hidden."

jscipione/BeScreenCapture#1

The application should also show the seconds of recording.

Pause / Resume support in bescreencapture would be of great help !

Right after clicking stop recording, the encoding phase starts. The progress bar does not update for a while, depending on how many frames have been recorded.

Errors :

1. While recording seconds did not increased appropriately.
2. Shortcuts are not easy to use as they are very long.
3. Unable to play recorded videos with 'Windows Media Player' (Image included).
4. Difficult to stop the recording while the application is 'hidden'.
5. Application is not too user friendly.
6. When Source : Region is selected it sometime shows error('General System Error') (Image included).

Suggestions :

1. Must add a 'Pause recording' button or function for pause the recording.
2. Should add a 'MP4' file type as it is more commonly used and suppurted than .avi and the like file types.
3. Shortcuts must be easy like F8, F9, F10 or CTRL + S, SHIFT + S and they must not like CTRL + COMMAND + SHIFT + R as it is hard to press and remember.
4. Video should play automatically after recording is finished.
5. More friendly UI ,so beginners can understand easily.
6. Add tutorials and some tools for editing for videos recorded.

Hi!

I was trying to record something on Haiku R1/Beta2 but I can't get it to record more than 1-2FPS. This is on a relatively fast machine (Ryzen 16 threads).

Does BeScreenCapture adapt FPS depending on how fast it can store the files?

I also noticed that both capture and mpeg encoding is only 1 thread. Can that be improved?

Thanks!

Both for the 3D app icon and for the 2D start, stop and pause.

Zumi's Icons might be worth looking at.

There is a crash on quit on master. The stack trace is different between gcc2 and gcc4/5, I guess it's caused by a double free().

The Haikuports recipe must be modified to accomodate the changes done in BeScreenCapture: now we have an input_server filter, which should be included in the package. Moreover, the ReadMe should be included in the package, too.

Deskbar icon size is fixed at 16x16 and does not scale

This is more likely a Haiku problem, but since it involves files created via BeScreenCapture, leaving this also here. Maybe a slightly different video output can solve the issue.

https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/16860

Would be nice to add notifications (via BNotification)

GIF export creates a number of temporary files, then it does not delete them when done.

Thanks for this very useful application.

BeScreenCapture should have an option to export to animated GIFs, like Peek has. It can be done with ffmpeg, which is available on Haiku.

Here is the code that does it:

https://github.com/phw/peek/blob/e967c3167b1dae3237480402f48fc7b6eba1f659/src/post-processing/ffmpeg-post-processor.vala

Reference:
https://medium.com/@probonopd/my-sixth-day-with-haiku-under-the-hood-of-resources-icons-and-packages-abec8d0e4ec6

On haiku 32 bit, encoding fails with "initialization failed" when recording more than 100 frames

Would be nice to be able to dock the application window to a side of the screen (top / bottom).
Obviously, the interface would have to be adapted so it would spread to the sides.

Hello there, i was trying to use bescreencapture, but i constantly have that bug with more than 1000-1200+ frames, if it record more frames then overload the ram and later seems like the virtualmemory have the same luck.

Later of some important minutes 10-20minutes, it can end sucefully or just crash, loosing all the video.

Using hey is possible to set an invalid capture area.
For example:

~> hey BeScreenCapture SET CaptureRect to "BRect(-1,-1,99999,9999)"
Reply BMessage(B_REPLY):
"error" (B_INT32_TYPE) : 0 (0x00000000)

the capture rect is set, but

This error is logged on console:
bitmap bounds is much too large: BRect(-1.0, -1.0, 99999.0, 9999.0)

Add ability to start / stop recording / set recording area via scripting

When I played the recorded videos in Windows Media Player it showed some Error but it worked fine in VLC media player.
Encoder Combination :
File Format : AVI
Media Codec : MPEG-4 video
Suggestion : Add a 'MP4' file type too as it is more common and supported than avi and the likes.

The ReadMe file needs improvements:

• Remove the FAQ section and integrate into the rest
• Proofreading from a native English speaker
• other

Even though I select some other app , the preview still shows bescreencapture .

Hello, is weird, but sometimes when i use bescreencrapture, my laptop screen bright is reduced almost to the minimun, and this only happen with be screen capture, very strange.

Did you try it on a laptop?

The MovieEncoder class needs to be reviewed: maybe it's doing something wrong in media initialization, thus causing the problems related to clips not being generated correctly.

The HaikuPorts recipe should include the readme file, and put it inside a documentation folder

Clicking Select Region gives me this :

I am on Haiku and trying to stop the recording but after using the given commands the recording doesn't stop .

Playback of a screen capture with MediaPlayer is slow. My settings: file format AVI, codec MPEG-4 video. This is with v2.2.1 available from HaikuDepot.
MediaPlayer info says "132.000 fps", playback doesn't show a time, the time-slider-knob doesn't move. Terminal output says: MediaFileTrackSupplier: warning! track index 0 has no duration
I do realize this might be more an issue of Haiku's codecs... (hrev50749)

Add translation support using the Haiku locale API

A button to default/revert settings if added would be great !

A feature to directly upload the video to Youtube would be great !

When exporting bitmap frames or to GIF with scaling enabled (example: 50%), images look distorted.

Using large fonts make's my window go out of the scope to see , a slidebar probably would help ?

Application texts (error messages, etc) needs to be proofread and fixed if necessary.

It only gets displayed after Region/Window.

When using the GIF export option, there is no progress information, and the process Is very slow and memory hungry when there are many frames

Currently the application could overwrite the destination file.
There needs to be a way to handle this better.

Shortcuts must be easy like F8, F9, F10 or ctrl + s, shift + s rather than ctrl+command+shift+r as it is not easy to press.
Suggestion : You can also add a Pause button.

BeScreenCapture failes to build on x86_64, hrev52077.

bin2txt.cpp:17:37: error: no match for 'operator>' (operand types are 'std::basic_istream<char>' and 'int') while (std::getline(inFile, line) > 0) { ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~ bin2txt.cpp:17:37: note: candidate: operator>(int, int) <built-in> bin2txt.cpp:17:37: note: no known conversion for argument 1 from 'std::basic_istream<char>' to 'int'

Would be nice to have a way to select the area after hitting the record shortcut and before start recording

Installed from HaikuDepot version 2.6.0-1
using default options.
cannot stop or pause the process, has to kill the program to stop it.
no outputfile.avi
how to clean the cache then?

From Haiku #13838
"I am using BeScreenCapture 2.3.1 to create a developer timeline video, and have noticed a major regression compared to 15 months ago (BeScreenCapture 2.02). With hrev51660 (latest as of 8/Dec/2017, both 32 and 64 bit versions), I can only capture 1600x1200@2fps. 15 months ago (videos from Sep 2016), on the exact same hardware/screen resolution (32 bit version of Haiku only), I was able to get 1600x1200@10fps, which is a factor of 5 regression (10fps vs 2fps).
MacBookPro 11.3, running Haiku from USB2 hard disk. Intel i7-4870HQ (4 core, 8 thread), 16Gb RAM, nVidia GT750M (VESA) "

Just a suggestion. As opening the help file and the "About" both concern the app, and the "Quit" item is so very lonesome there, those items may be moved back into the "App" menu. I suggest:

• App
  "Help... ALT+H" (to open the doc)
  "About BeScreenCapture" (it's good practise to include the app name here)
  ---- (Separator)
  "Quit ALT+Q"

• Recording
  "Start ALT+S" (disasable while recording)
  "Stop ALT+T" (only enable when recording)
  ---- (Separator"
  "Pause ALT+P" (this one should have a checkmark)

• Settings
  "Reset to defaults ALT+R"

When source : Region is selected it sometimes shows this error ('General system error').

Hello there, i was trying the new features of bescreencapture, and it work better now but still have a similar limit than the last time i did report wth more than 2000-2200-+ frames, if it record more frames give an encoding error. around more than 6 minutes(?

Haiku x64
later of try to record the screen when i push stop record pop that warnings.

A problem has ocurred: general system error

[mpeg4 @ 0x1603340a940] The encoder timebase is not set.
[avi @ 0x160334f5040] Using AVStream.codec.time_base as a timebase hint to the muxer is deprecated. Set AVStream.time_base instead.
Ignoring attempt to set invalid timebase 1/0 for st:0
[avi @ 0x160334f5040] Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.
[mpeg4 @ 0x1603340ae20] The encoder timebase is not set.
[mpeg4 @ 0x160335d1000] The encoder timebase is not set.
[avi @ 0x160335c9180] Using AVStream.codec.time_base as a timebase hint to the muxer is deprecated. Set AVStream.time_base instead.
Ignoring attempt to set invalid timebase 1/0 for st:0
[avi @ 0x160335c9180] Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.
[mpeg4 @ 0x160335d14e0] The encoder timebase is not set.
[swscaler @ 0x1603352a9e0] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly
[mjpeg @ 0x160335d14e0] The encoder timebase is not set.
[avi @ 0x160335c9180] Using AVStream.codec.time_base as a timebase hint to the muxer is deprecated. Set AVStream.time_base instead.
Ignoring attempt to set invalid timebase 1/0 for st:0
[avi @ 0x160335c9180] Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.
[mjpeg @ 0x160335d1000] The encoder timebase is not set.
[swscaler @ 0x1603352a9e0] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly
[mjpeg @ 0x1603340ae20] The encoder timebase is not set.
[avi @ 0x160334da5c0] Using AVStream.codec.time_base as a timebase hint to the muxer is deprecated. Set AVStream.time_base instead.
Ignoring attempt to set invalid timebase 1/0 for st:0
[avi @ 0x160334da5c0] Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.
[mjpeg @ 0x1603340a940] The encoder timebase is not set.
[swscaler @ 0x16033be0da0] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly
[mjpeg @ 0x160335d1000] The encoder timebase is not set.
[avi @ 0x1603357f480] Using AVStream.codec.time_base as a timebase hint to the muxer is deprecated. Set AVStream.time_base instead.
Ignoring attempt to set invalid timebase 1/0 for st:0
[avi @ 0x1603357f480] Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.
[mjpeg @ 0x160335d14e0] The encoder timebase is not set.
[swscaler @ 0x16033be0da0] deprecated pixel format used, make sure you did set range correctly
[mjpeg @ 0x16033574940] The encoder timebase is not set.
[avi @ 0x16033c2a2c0] Using AVStream.codec.time_base as a timebase hint to the muxer is deprecated. Set AVStream.time_base instead.
Ignoring attempt to set invalid timebase 1/0 for st:0
[avi @ 0x16033c2a2c0] Using AVStream.codec to pass codec parameters to muxers is deprecated, use AVStream.codecpar instead.
[mjpeg @ 0x16033574e20] The encoder timebase is not set.

On second (and subsequent) launch, the file name gets messed up: the file extension is also added to the file name part, without the dot.
Basically, the file name "outputfile.avi" becomes "outputfileavi.avi".

When selecting a region to capture, first 10 frames are captured with the wrong region.

Add icons for selection draggers in Region selection mode.
Currently draggers are empty rects and they look bad.