[Feature request] Mouse Pointer visibility when recording

[cypherinfo]

Hello, congratulations for your great free app; it is one of the references in its kind.
I'd like to see it a reference in the future too, that's why I invite you when recording, to make visible the mouse pointer too.
That's would a great improvement for those making a video tutorial and maybe will make Scrcpy one of the few if not the only one to feature that possibility.
Thank you.

[rom1v]

The video is hardware-encoded on the device side. For recording, the video stream is just muxed, on the client side. This avoids to reencode, which is better for both quality and performance.

Incrusting a mouse pointer would require to reencode the video.

Also, the device produces a new frame only when the screen content changes. A mouse pointer could change between frames (especially when the device screen content does not change), so this would imply to insert new frames.

[Erudition]

On the contrary, connecting a usb mouse to an android device (such as via OTG) makes a pointer show up that you can use just like any other - so you could have scrcpy send mouse movements to do the same.

[rom1v]

@Erudition Yes, using HID over AOA, the mouse is shown on the device (so it would probably be recorded). (But it would only work on Linux.)

Ref:

• Unable to use keyboard on Unreal Engine game #87 (comment)
• Sending keyboard events as physical keyboard instead of virtual keyboard #279 (comment)

[Erudition]

Oh well that's perfect then!
(no need for Windows on my end.)

[maddinmcfly]

Any chance, that i can have the cursor position visible on my android device all the time? Like, i can look at the device and control it with seeing my cursor? Thx

[rom1v]

@maddinmcfly No: #2088 (comment)