com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder
This is a screen recorder that has minimal impact on system performance by recording a monitor
using the GPU only, similar to shadowplay on windows. This is the fastest screen recording tool
for Linux. This screen recorder works on X11 and Wayland on AMD, Intel and NVIDIA.
This screen recorder can be used for recording your desktop offline, for live streaming and
for nvidia shadowplay-like instant replay, where only the last few minutes are saved.
This flatpak is designed to support hardware video encoding with both old and new GPUs.
Supported video codecs:
<ul><li>H264 (default)</li><li>HEVC (Optionally with HDR)</li><li>AV1 (Optionally with HDR)</li><li>VP8</li><li>VP9</li></ul>
Supported audio codecs:
<ul><li>Opus (default)</li><li>AAC</li></ul>
Supported image formats:
<ul><li>JPEG</li><li>PNG</li></ul>
At the moment the program comes with two different UIs. A gtk based one and a new experimental
ShadowPlay-like fullscreen overlay UI. The gtk based UI will be removed in the future. You can
switch to the new UI by clicking on "Try out the new UI" and then after that is done press Left
Alt+Z to open/close it.
Videos are in variable framerate format by default. Use MPV to play such videos, otherwise you
might experience stuttering in the video if you are using a buggy video player. Alternatively change
framerate mode to constant framerate.
For more information visit the GPU Screen Recorder homepage.
If you use the new UI and also keyboard remapping software such as keyd then make sure you make
the keyboard remapping software ignores "gsr-ui virtual keyboard" (dec0:5eba device id), otherwise
you may be unable to use your keyboard. You can press (left) ctrl+shift+alt+esc to close gpu screen
recorder and remove it from system startup if this happens. You should also change hotkeys option
in gpu screen recorder to only grab virtual devices when using keyboard remapping software.
GPU Screen Recorder flatpak can install files in $HOME/.local/share/gpu-screen-recorder. If
you want to uninstall GPU Screen Recorder then you will have to remove this directory manually.
If you tried out the new UI then an xdg autostart desktop entry was added to ~/.config/autostart/gpu-screen-recorder-ui.desktop.
If you want to uninstall GPU Screen Recorder then you will have to remove that file and ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/gpu-screen-recorder@dec05eba.com/
as well (if you use GNOME).
Latest reviews
This is the best screen capture and region-based screenshots application throughout the whole Linux ecosystem. Know why? Because the developer is responsive. I emailed him myself reporting a screen-capture bug and he responded to me within 15 minutes. He told me that he would work on the fix immediately, and less than 1 hour later my Mint Update Manager gave me a notification to update GPU Screen Recorder. The developer emailed me to confirm release of bug fix. I never saw a developer do this. 10/10.
Love the app, please for the love of god stop spamming the "Failed to get OpenGL information." popup after I close it, it's infuriating. I'm fine with the program not working for a while after I update my drivers, i'm not fine with the popup spam.
It's a great app but sadly it has a bunch of different bugs and driver issues, and causes many of my games to hard crash. I'm sure it's an issue with the drivers or something, but regardless all the other screen recorders work without any issues. I'll just stick to steam game recording in the meantime until things get smoothed out.
I think this application is the best that currently exists for linuxmint! Works perfectly, easy to configure.
better than most screen recorders on Windows, and much more simple than OBS :D it's seamless, doesn't affect performance and it's perfect for quick clips!
This is exactly what I was looking for. Very fast and light, new menu looks almost identical to shadowplay, great tool!
GPU Screen Recorder marche impec sous Linux Mint 21.3. Bravo et merci à ses développeurs !
This is definitely one of my essentials! It's super fast, great quality and I absolutely love the new UI with quick access. You can even use it to stream! It's amazing, great work!
Its amazing. Very fast, video quality is great. Does not overload my GPU, i didn't notice any performance impact while gaming and recording. I have few suggestions / improvements to the author if he is reading this. It would be great to have recording overlay indicator (in a form of a red dot in one of the corners of the screen that will not get recorded), or at least different sounds when starting to record and when stopping the recording. Additionally it would be awesome if we could record only game sound and not discord conversation with my teammates, it makes uploading to youtube very hard if every single part of our conversation is recorded. Awesome app! Thanks dev!
Worked exactly as intended for me without any setup. Using LMDE 6. If it'd had the ability to record my microphone aswell, it would have replaced my whole current recording setup.
Works for me (on LM 21 Vanessa). It stopped after GPU driver update but after reinstalling screen recorder it's up again.
Had some trouble with audio, but once I got it sorted everything works well. I wish there was an option to enable the replay automatically during system boot, because it's hard to remember to launch it every time I want to play a game.
Funktioniert nicht. Lediglich eine Fehlermeldung, wenn ich versuche, eine Aufnahme zu starten. Unter "The fastest screen recorder" hatte ich etwas anderes verstanden als fastest screen recorder im Ausgeben von Errors.
Thank you!!! Making replays on Linux has always been a pain when it comes to gaming, people always just say use OBS, but it uses more resources than it should. This app has now made me fully switch to Linux because now I can create clips in my games without any stutters or drops in my fps. This is a lifesaver!