jeffijoe / screengun

A simple screen recorder for Windows based on ffmpeg

ScreenGun

The free screen recorder for Windows, based on FFMPEG.

Quickstart

• Download it

• Extract somewhere and run ScreenGun.exe

• Press "New Recording"

• Select the area you wish to record, amd press the Record:

  

• To stop recording, click on the ScreenGun icon in the system tray:

  

What is it?

ScreenGun is a very simple tool to make quick screen recordings in excellent quality at the expense of framerate.

ScreenGun is suitable for

• Quick demos
• Showing your parents how to send an email
• Small tutorials

ScreenGun is NOT suitable for

• Game recordings
• .. other things requiring a high framerate

The techy stuff

ScreenGun uses Window's GDI+ to take screenshots as fast as it can (basically the same as PrtScr). It timestamps these frames internally and generates a textfile to be fed to the ffmpeg concat demuxer. For audio, ScreenGun uses NAudio to record the selected microphone. It also records the cursor.

Author

Jeff Hansen - @Jeffijoe