Real time video capture with swaygrab

[ddevault]

1. Implement orbital's screenshooter protocol in sway and swaygrab (and drop the IPC strategy)
2. Use libavcodec directly instead of piping pixels into ffmpeg's stdin

[ghost]

I'd be happy to be assigned this issue.

[ddevault]

No one gets assigned to issues. Just do it and send a patch.

But... this is something we need to do in wlroots now, not sway.

[ascent12]

@lofenyy If you're serious about trying to do this, you should join #sway-devel.
This task would require a serious amount of work, though.

[ddevault]

This is implemented 🎉

[howdoicomputer]

@SirCmpwn With swaygrab deprecated is there anything that replaces it for video capture?

[ddevault]

examples/dmabuf-capture in wlroots is the reference implementation. Also check out https://github.com/atomnuker/wlstream

[howdoicomputer]

That was beyond fast. Thank you @SirCmpwn!

[levimake]

That was beyond fast. Thank you @SirCmpwn!

How to make screen capture from that ? Can you explain ?

[howdoicomputer]

@levimake Oh, sorry. I was more replying to how quickly he replied to the thread. At the time, he replied 30 seconds or so after I had posted my question. I was very appreciative.

Unfortunately, I never figured out how to get something together. I ended up dropping Sway because of it, actually. I needed to use screen sharing applications for work related reasons and so I moved back to i3.