ProCapture is a blazing-fast, lightweight screen recorder for Linux. Built natively with C and GTK3, it acts as a highly efficient frontend for FFmpeg, focusing on hardware acceleration to ensure near-zero CPU overhead while recording.
Whether you are capturing gameplay, creating tutorials, or recording meetings, ProCapture leverages your GPU to do the heavy lifting.
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- Hardware Acceleration: Native support for NVIDIA (
h264_nvenc), Intel (h264_qsv), and AMD/Open-Source (h264_vaapi) encoders. - Minimalist Native UI: Built with GTK3 to blend seamlessly into modern Linux desktop environments.
- Dynamic Quality Control: Uses CRF (Constant Rate Factor) and CQ (Constant Quality) instead of flat bitrates for mathematically perfect file sizes and visual fidelity.
- Customizable Inputs: Easily adjust framerates (up to 60fps), resolutions, and audio bitrates.
- MP4 Faststart: Automatically optimizes video files for immediate web streaming.
The easiest way to install ProCapture is via the pre-compiled .deb package.
- Go to the Releases page.
- Download the latest
procapture_1.0-1_amd64.debfile. - Install it via terminal:
sudo apt install ./procapture_1.0-1_amd64.deb