wf-recorder - Man Page

wf-recorder [options...] -f [file]

-a,  --audio [DEVICE]

Starts recording the screen with audio.

[DEVICE] argument is optional. In case you want to specify the PulseAudio device which will capture the audio, you can run this command with the name of that device. You can find your device by running pactl list sinks | grep Name

-c,  --codec

Specifies the codec of the video. Supports GIF output as well.

To modify codec parameters, use -p <option_name>=<option_value>

-d,  --device

Selects the device to use when encoding the video.

Some drivers report support for rgb0 data for vaapi input but really only support yuv.

Use the -t or --to-yuv option in addition to the vaapi options to convert the data in software, before sending it to the GPU.

-f <filename>.ext

By using the -f option, the output file will have the name filename.ext and the file format will be determined by the provided extension. If the extension is not recognized by your FFmpeg muxers, the command will fail.

You can check the muxers that your FFmpeg installation supports by running ffmpeg -muxers

-m,  --muxer

Set the output format to a specific muxer instead of detecting it from the filename.

-x,  --pixel-format

Set the output pixel format. List available formats using ffmpeg -pix_fmts

-g,  --geometry

Selects a specific part of the screen.

-h,  --help

Prints this help screen.

-l,  --log

Generates a log on the current terminal. For debug purposes.

-o,  --output

Specify the output where the video is to be recorded.

-p,  --codec-param

Change the codec parameters.

-p <option_name>=<option_value>

-e,  --opencl [DEVICE]

Uses opencl to do RGB to YUV conversion on the GPU.

-t,  --force-yuv

Use the -t or --force-yuv option in addition to the vaapi options to convert the data in software, before sending it to the GPU.

-b [max_b_frames], --bframes [max_b_frames]

Sets the maximum number of B-Frames to use.

wf-recorder is a tool built to record your screen on Wayland compositors. It makes use of wlr-screencopy for capturing video and FFmpeg for encoding it.

ffmpeg(1) pactl(1)