ScreenRecorder

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Screen Recorder

It is a simple recording program with the ability to record the screen.

Default Settings

Advanced Settings

📃 Usage

• Pressing the round button starts recording and stops when pressing the square button.
• Pressing the Cogwheel button in the lower right corner displays a pop-up menu for recording settings.

🎨 Features

• By default, the video codec uses H.264.
  • If your computer supports hardware codecs for NVENC or QuickSync, use them first.
  • If necessary, the H.265 codec can also be selected from the Advanced Settings menu. (If hardware encoding is not supported, very high CPU load can occur)
• By default, the audio codec uses AAC.
  • MP3 codecs can also be selected from the Advanced Settings menu if necessary.
• The program itself is recorded without being included in the recording screen.
• Cursor capture settings allow you to set whether the mouse cursor is captured or not.
• Record by specifying an region by the user
  • You have the following selection options:
    • Capture Region, Capture Window, Capture Display
• Recording function using hotkeys.
• Microphone recording function (Record system default capture device)
• By default, the recording frame rate is 60 fps.
  • Other frame rates can also be selected in the advanced settings menu if required.
    • 15, 24, 25, 30, 48, 50, 60, 120, 144 fps

💡 System requirements

• Platforms Supported: Windows 10 64bit Version 1903 or newer (Version 2004+ recommended for self-window exclusion)
• Graphics: Compatible with DirectX 11 or later (Windows Graphics Capture)
  • If you want to use NVENC H.264, you need GTX 600 series or higher
  • If you want to use NVENC HEVC, you need GTX 950 series or higher
  • The minimum required Nvidia driver for NVENC is 522.25 or newer
  • Hardware encoding falls back to software (libx264/libx265) when unavailable
• The installer is self-contained — no separate .NET runtime is required

📚 References

• Softpedia review of v1.0.4
• ilovefreesoftware review

👨‍💻 Build

• .NET 9 SDK (win-x64)
• Windows 10 64bit or newer

FFmpeg shared libraries are not committed. Before running/building, place the 5 FFmpeg 8.x shared DLLs (avcodec-62, avformat-62, avutil-60, swresample-6, swscale-9) into Externals/ffmpeg/win-x64/ (see Externals/ffmpeg/README.md; e.g. the gyan.dev ffmpeg-8.1-full_build-shared build).

# Build & run
dotnet run --project ScreenRecorder/ScreenRecorder.csproj

# Build the installer (publish + NSIS) — requires NSIS (makensis)
Installers\build_setup.bat 2.0.0

📦 Third party libraries

• FFmpeg: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ (via FFmpeg.AutoGen)
• Vortice.Windows (Direct3D 11 / DXGI): https://github.com/amerkoleci/Vortice.Windows
• NAudio (WASAPI): https://github.com/naudio/NAudio
• CommunityToolkit.Mvvm: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/dotnet

💁 Feature Request

• If you have any features you want, please request them on the issues with the Feature Request label.

🎆 Contributing

• This project is an open source project. Anyone can contribute in any way.

🐞 Bug Report

• If you find a bug, please report to us posting issues on GitHub.