Screen Recording

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Is there any other way I can record my screen or desktop The software from the HaikuDepo that I used doesn’t work too good is there another way of doing screen recording such as using ffmpeg

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What software have you tried?

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https://depot.haiku-os.org/#!/pkg/bescreencapture/haikuports/haikuports_x86_64/2/9/9/-/2/x86_64?bcguid=bc2-VCJL

I’ve tried that but every time I try to record something with it the frame rate is just really choppy and slow Even though I have a modestly Beefy pc

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Try to lower resolution before recording. Also, remember that in matter of video recording, disc access is the main factor before CPU power. It is no more a problem with SSD drives but, on old hardware, you have to take that in account.

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I do have an SSD drive it might have something to do with that I’m not sure I will try playing around with the resolution I’ll get back with you to see if that fixes it

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Afaik bescreencapture uses native parts such app server to grab the screen bitmaps and the mediakit to convert them, probably I’m wrong but without a GPU acceleration, recording at full resolution eats too many resources, you can try to grab only the window or the area you want to record, use another codec (mjpeg is faster but worst in appearance); with my machine, I get ~12ps @1920*1080, and 2x with a 1/4 of this size

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I’m using a second computer with MacOS connected to the machine with Haiku.
Hardware: Mirabox Capture USB HD 1080p
Software: OBS
This setup is working fine except for the audio (due to no audio through HDMI with Haiku)

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I could do that but the only other PC I have is my work laptop

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Choose wisely what you want to record. For example, 3D games or ported web browsers will add stress both on disks and on CPU. Unless, your CPU is a beast, you will not have enough resources left to record in good conditions.

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Oh nice, how does this work?
What about a Tutorial?

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The tutorial was done a few month ago : Record Haiku videos | Haiku Insider

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See also this thread: Video Recording

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I don’t know if it works under Haiku or what the actual frame rate would be, but I believe you can use VLC media player to do screen recording.

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The best result, recording haiku is to use a extern paththrough hdmi adapter to record from another system with OBS.

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One indirect way, if you want to do videos or something, if to run Haiku in a vm and record the output, you can even run an existing on-disk install in a vm.

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i could do that