BeScreenCapture

BeScreenCapture lets you record what happens on your screen and save it to a clip in any media format supported by Haiku.

The recorded clip can be scaled to suit your needs.

Can be launched by using the CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+r shortcut, which will also start recording the specified area. Hit CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+r again to stop.

BeScreenCapture is also scriptable with hey:

Start recording

hey BeScreenCapture DO Record

Stop recording

hey BeScreenCapture DO Stop

Get capture rect

hey BeScreenCapture GET CaptureRect

Set capture rect

hey BeScreenCapture SET CaptureRect to "BRect(0,0, 200,300)"

Get scale

hey BeScreenCapture GET Scale

Set scale to 50%

hey BeScreenCapture SET Scale to 50

Set recording time to 5 seconds

hey BeScreenCapture SET RecordingTime to 5

You can also define your own shortcuts in the "Shortcuts" preflet:

• Start/Stop Recording: SendMessage application/x-vnd.BeScreenCapture 'StoR'
• Pause/Resume Recording: SendMessage application/x-vnd.BeScreenCapture 'PauC'

HowTo

Jonathan Steadman made a nice video tutorial on how to use BeScreenCapture here: https://youtu.be/kzwAKSbKDoU

Notes

• Command constants could change in the next releases.
• In current Haiku nightlies, it seems that the most reliable codec/format to use for encoding is MPEG/Mpeg4. Other codec/format combos may cause various kinds of problems.

Authors

Stefano Ceccherini

Contributors

• Zumi, Pete Goodeve (icons)
• John Scipione (layout fixes)
• humdinger (layout fixes, other)
• Jessica Hamilton (fixes)
• puckipedia ("incognito" capture mode)

Acknowledgements

• Marc Flerackers,
• Francois Revol,
• Andrew Bachmann for the help,
• Marcin Konicki for the web space and support,
• Zumi and Pete Goodeve for the icons,
• Every Haiku contributor
• and to anyone I forgot