Screen Recording

[astral laurel]

How can I record my screen? Is there an integrated way from Tauri itself? Because, in Electron, there's an API for that.

[winter timber]

Nope, nothing built into Tauri. You can probably find a crate for it though, pretty much anything on crates.io that you find can be used in your app

[astral laurel]

Any suggestions?

[astral laurel]

I've tried a lot of crates, but they're just really hard to understand. Most of the FFMPEG ones just don't compile.

[winter timber]

Sorry not really, never had to do it myself so haven't investigated, but I do suspect that it's gonna be easiest to use one of the FFMPEG based ones, even if dealing with the ffmpeg setup can be annoying

[rough fossil]

I don't know much about this but maybe look into navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia

It's a javascript feature, so not as fast.

[astral laurel]

can I get the stream into my rust backend?

because I need the frames in the backend

[rough fossil]

I mean, you can use tauri features for that? like the invoke system.

[astral laurel]

yes, but the javascript type probably doesnt exist in rust

[rough fossil]

Yes, but you could send the data after to Rust as a file type and manipulate that using, yes, ffmpeg, etc

[astral laurel]

thats not what I need tho, im making a circular buffer

i guess you could do that in js too

[rough fossil]

Probably! Like I said, I don't know much about video recording specifically.

Also maybe look into applications that can already do that? I don't know of any though.

[winter timber]

The JS feature relies on the user saying yes to screen capturing, if they say no then it's really annoying to re-ask for that permission. If you do it in the Rust end you can violate your users privacy freely

[astral laurel]

i love violating the users privacy freely

[rough fossil]

true..

[astral laurel]

im gonna try harder to find a rust approach first