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a free open source windows "screen capture" device and recorder (also allows VLC/ffmpeg and others to capture/stream desktop/audio)
https://github.com/rdp/screen-capture-recorder-to-video-windows-free/releases
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Global keyboard shortcuts to start/stop recording #19

Open andrasfuchs opened 11 years ago

andrasfuchs commented 11 years ago

It would increase the usability greatly if the users could define keystrokes to start and stop the recording without activating the configuration tool window and by clicking on the buttons.

andrasfuchs commented 10 years ago

If this was possible, it would solve the other problem with the foreground window (mentioned in #32 ).

rdp commented 10 years ago

Interesting idea...so you're suggesting this mostly from the GUI recorder I think?

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Andras Fuchs notifications@github.com wrote:

It would increase the usability greatly if the users could define keystrokes to start and stop the recording without activating the configuration tool window and by clicking on the buttons.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/rdp/screen-capture-recorder-to-video-windows-free/issues/19 .

andrasfuchs commented 10 years ago

Well, we would need only one global "hot key" combination (like Ctrl+Alt+R or something like that) to start/stop the recordings. So yes, it would be only for the GUI recorder. The point is that the GUI window of the recorder could stay in the background.

This way the user could work with the program he needs to record (so that would be the foreground window), press the keyboard combination and start recording. And stop it when he finished without switching from the active foreground window.