evid

Screen recorder for X with a minimal interface. Supports mp4 (outputs h264 encoded files) and GIFs. The heavy lifting is done by ffmpeg.

Build requirements

• libx11
• libnotify - Optional (enabled by default, modify the Makefile to disable)
• libXfixes - Optional (enabled by default, modify the Makefile to disable)

Runtime requirements

• ffmpeg
• zenity - Optional (disabled by default, modify the Makefile to enable)

Compile from source

Install compile dependencies

Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt install libx11-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libnotify-dev

Then:

make
make install

make install might need to be run as sudo as it tries to write into the /usr/local/bin folder.

Usage

evid has preconfigured default values so you can just execute the binary, select the area to record and when you're done just press CTRL+s to save or CTRL+c to copy to clipboard. If no area is selected and evid is compiled with HAVE_XEXTENSIONS, evid will record the entire window that was clicked. evid doesn't have any config files so to change the default shortcuts you will need to modify src/actions.h and recompile.

By default evid outputs the recordings as mp4 without any audio and saves them in $XDG_VIDEOS_DIR/evid/ or $HOME/Videos/evid/.
You can change the output directory by setting the XDG_VIDEOS_DIR variable, the HOME variable or specify it via the argument -o (E.G. -o/some/path).
To output gifs you can use the -g argument, or -gg if you want higher quality gifs.
To record audio you can use -a, by default it uses the default source in pulseaudio. You can also use alsa and optionally specify the source. -apulse,somesource or -aalsa or -aalsa,somealsadevice.