video recorder under antiX

[ninosMember]

is there a native software package to record video from the internet?

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[RobinMember]

Hi Ninos. antiX TV can do this, working like a traditional video tape recorder. Just click the record button while a station is playing.

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[punrangerMember]

There are two approaches to this. One is to capture the video file itself from the server. The most popular option for that seems to be yt-dlp, which is geared towards catching YouTube videos. I haven’t used it myself in a while, but I know YouTube tries to stop it working. The other approach is a screen recorder. Simple screen recorder used to come preinstalled in antiX and worked well. There’s also OBS, which is popular. Screen recorders do give you a lower quality video than server capturing software. Not sure how antiX TV does it, haven’t tested that.

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[ninosMember]

I don’t want to record from a TV station.
I want to record my screen.

Under other linux distros I remember I used simplescreenrecorder.

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[ninosMember]

The simplescreenrecorder I remember I used under other distros, years ago,
https://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/
made excellent video recordings of the screen
with very clear picture & sound.

• This reply was modified 4 months, 3 weeks ago by ninos.

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[RobinMember]

ninos wrote:

…to record video from the internet?

↑↑↑ ??? ↓↓↓

ninos wrote:

I don’t want to record from a TV station.
I want to record my screen.

First you said you want to record video from the internet, now you want to record from your screen. What do you actually want?

ninos wrote:

The simplescreenrecorder I remember I used under other distros, years ago,
https://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/
made excellent video recordings of the screen
with very clear picture & sound.

If you know that worked for you, why then don’t you install it from the repos simply ?

$ apt-cache policy simplescreenrecorder
simplescreenrecorder:
  Installiert:           0.4.4-3
  Installationskandidat: 0.4.4-3
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 0.4.4-3 500
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

It still works fine.

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[ninosMember]

Thanks Ronin.

I installed simplescreenrecorder using the antiX Software installer,
it records fine, whatever you see on your screen (no matter what the source is)
and it saves the recording as an .mkv file
in Home / Videos.
but NO SOUND.
I know that simplescreenrecorder has a problem with Wayland,
if I remember well, it needs X11.

or maybe change something in the source menu?

Any ideas?

I’ll check this info too:
https://gemini.google.com/share/b8ff197e664c

• This reply was modified 4 months, 3 weeks ago by ninos.
• This reply was modified 4 months, 3 weeks ago by ninos.
• This reply was modified 4 months, 3 weeks ago by ninos.

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antiX does not use wayland

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[ninosMember]

So, Wayland is not the problem,
as antiX is using X11.

I hope somebody who uses simplescreenrecorder
will come up with a solution
of the sound problem, under antiX.

Please see the photo of the simplescreenrecorder menu, above,
maybe change the source from default to
pipewire sound server???

• This reply was modified 4 months, 3 weeks ago by ninos.

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[RobinMember]

ninos wrote:

but NO SOUND.

You’ll have to make sure that you can record from a loopback device (plain alsa) or a monitor channel (pipewire). E.g. when recording via pipewire, check what source is set for simplescreenrecorder in the record tab. While when running plain alsa, make sure to have the respective source not muted. Both can be really tricky, and from what I have expereienced, you’ll have to set the audio again and again after starting a next recording, because of the unstable way pipewire keeps reassigning everything again and again. Try and error is what I can recommend only in this case unfortunately, in particular because of the variety of audio hardware, each of which needs different treatment. But I can state it works the one way or other in the end.

ninos wrote:

maybe change something in the source menu?

That’s a good start. Please note, in the pipewire layer mixer (pavucontrol) the simplescreenrecord entry in the recording tab will only show up after you have started the recording, and be reset as soon you stop it. Only while present there you can change the source so it records actually what you need to record.

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