Just wanted to say thank you

[off-by-some]

Been wanting to write a native streamer for GNU/Linux for a while... Your source really helped out (X11 docs, not only are they virtually non-existent, they are quite hard on the eyes as well)

I hope to contribute as soon as i can grok the code in its entirety (though, i don't know how i feel about QT hah)

[MaartenBaert]

Haha yes, figuring out the APIs is often the hardest part. If you think X11 is bad, you should have a look at ffmpeg/libav! :P

What kind of application are you writing?

[off-by-some]

@MaartenBaert a native streaming client for linux, hardly anybody has done anything like it other than that ffmpeg script that is flying around

I hope to model it after something like OBS for windows... i can not tell you how many times i have needed to switch to windows just to stream whatever, its a rather large hassle.

I just severely dislike the fact that any documentation is almost non-existent in the world of what i am doing, well aside from this repository.

If you'd like to take a look at a basically empty repository, feel free to take a look here.

[MaartenBaert]

Are you aware that SSR already has some basic streaming support? http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/live-streaming/ It's not as robust as recording to a file, but it works. I think it could easily be improved by writing a custom ffmpeg output module that uses librtmp (possibly based on the ffmpeg RTMP module).

[off-by-some]

I was unaware, i am hoping to write a clone of something like OBS.. but you made my research even easier! well done! hah.

Though i am extremely interested in how you went about doing things, most recently twitch has been breaking for the normal FFMPEG script that has been floating around. I hope to dissect your code in detail to see exactly what is going on

to be honest though, C++ is by far my strongest language, i'm used to (come to think of it, scripting languages mainly) Ruby, Java, Python, Lua, and a tad of JS as well as LS.

Sorry for the late reply, i have been doing numerous things, not even had time for personal projects sadly.

[tanghus]

Just wanted to say thank you

I just wanna second that :) All the HOWTOs I've seen on screen casting were too complex for me to even bother, but now it's a piece of cake thanks to your great application.

[ywarnier]

And I'll "third" that :-) Exact same comments. This is a great tool in terms of usability. Default options are nice, changing options is easy, WebM export format is great, I get the video saved where I expect it, and I just discovered the trick you suggested for embedding the webcam stream inside the video (issue #64). I use SimpleScreenRecorder for all tutorials for Chamilo LMS (GPL) now, and it's really helping me avoiding to loose my time between preparing, recording and editing. Thank you very much!

[ghost]

Same here, I've been utilising this application a lot this year and very much appreciate the quality of it!