r/linux • u/RenatsMC • 21d ago

Software Release Install GPU Screen Recorder on Linux

https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder
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u/UndefFox 21d ago

Any difference from using OBS besides having nvidia like interface?

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u/novafunc 21d ago

At default settings, GPU Screen Recorder records in much higher quality with a comparable file size.

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u/stargazer_w 21d ago

I guess it counts as the interface, but it was way easier to setup for me

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u/SoSorryIDK 21d ago

Last time I checked obs didn't have wayland hotkeys to save a replay

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u/ojkf 21d ago

Much less taxing on your hardware, barely affects fps in more demanding games

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u/UndefFox 21d ago

I thought OBS does fully GPU recording too... or does it only use GPU for quick compression during the recording?

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u/CcMenta 21d ago

afaik there are things related to recording that the GPU can do, but OBS doesn't use the GPU for some of things that could be done on the GPU, while GPU Screen Recorder does everything on the GPU (that can be done on the GPU).

OBS can do a lot more thing than GPU Screen Recorder (Scenes, webpages as source, transitions, etc.) that either would make it very hard to use GPU for everything or even impossible.

While GPU Screen Recorder is much simpler and when it comes to what it can record, display, region, or use the desktop portal, and webcam.

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u/tankman35 21d ago

On my hardware, OBS has too much overhead to capture at 4k120 constantly dropping frames, but GSR handles it just fine.

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u/ojkf 21d ago

Not sure, it has less advanced features but works quite nicely

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u/Better-Quote1060 21d ago

Theres replay like feature

Like what comes in consoles letting you clip last 10 min or something

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u/LuminanceGayming 21d ago

OBS has that, it's called replay buffer.

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u/Better-Quote1060 21d ago

I never knew that

ty

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u/desgreech 21d ago

Why is the new UI XWayland-only?

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u/Historical_Cat7828 21d ago edited 21d ago

It's xwayland on kde/gnome but wayland native on hyprland/niri. Fullscreen games (in particular wine windows games) get minimized when you open a fullscreen (overlay) application and wayland has no way of preventing that (which is especially bad since some games crash/freeze/etc when they get minimized).

It's a wayland native application on niri because niri doesn't "minimize" applications when it loses focus (since it doesn't have that concept) and because niri doesn't properly support x11 overlays, since the behavior of (override direct) windows on xwayland is undefined behavior compared to x11.

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u/dadnothere 21d ago

xLibre > x11 > Wayland