MaartenBaert / ssr

SimpleScreenRecorder, a screen recorder for Linux
http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/
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Record into multiple files? #957

Open luminous706 opened 2 years ago

luminous706 commented 2 years ago

Just wondering if there is such a feature? I need to record the screen for long times and would love to have the option to output files, rotated hourly, for example.

Charlie-Ramirez-Animation-Studios-de-MX commented 2 years ago

Hi, It seems to me that a File truncation by size or maximum time is not implemented as such,

However you can emulate the function by using Schedule Mode, and the Option checkbox to Separate files by segments

Warning! {I don't usually use the separate files mode...so based on the behavior of the Start-Stop mode}: Remember that in some cases SSR needs a slight time at the end of a recording to store the file and start again depending on the size/resolution of the recording and the load-capacity; CPU-Disk of your PC (So always try this function). before definitive use) Especially if you require a Seamless Transition and you cannot miss any second of recording (In this case continuous recording could be a better option and then cut with a video editor, at the expense of time which requires). o Either use two SSR Instances simultaneously, Programmed in such a way that while one Instance finishes a recording round and performs its saving process, the other is already recording from the same second that the first one made the cut [creating a kind of batch rotation "SSR1 -Records odd hours from 0-59s, SSR2 records from seconds 59-"NextHour 0" of even hours in a loop"]

Scheduled mode is quite accurate if your system clock is set correctly [here you can see a test I did during the clock transition to daylight saving time using UTC mode, alongside a WWV-NIST Station simulator and some clocks]. Programming SSR to start exactly 20 seconds before the minute change and end 5:10 after https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--ijTHXEN50

My system is in Spanish but the location of buttons and commands are simple and the same image