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This is good to know even if now immediately applicable.
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TomasHubelbauer committed Jan 2, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -55,6 +55,17 @@ might be possible to start a screen recording programatically.
Only taking screenshots using the `screencapture` CLI is documented online.
I have not found a way to start a screen recording using the CLI yet.

## Extras

There is also a binary PLIST used by `screencapture`.
It can be viewed in a human-readable form like so:

```
plutil -convert xml1 -o - ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture.plist
```

I haven't found it to contain super interesting information, however.

## To-Do

### Figure out how to start screen recording using the CLI
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