Screen video recorder APK application for Jolla
 

Hello,

Is there any Screen Video Recorder (like AZ screen Recorder) android application compatible with Sailfish OS on my jolla to recorder Video on screen?
Anybody have test one which work?

Let me know.
Thank you

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There is a https://github.com/nemomobile/lipstick-recorder/ you can compile yourself.

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Yes, I wonder why bother with an Android application when you can have it native?

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Maybe because not everyone can build from sources? Or know there is a source?

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well, build once and publish to openrepos

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Who can build it and put it on openrepos?

and about android app nobody test one who work?

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Hi,

any news?

any android screen video recorder work with jolla?

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I'm also interested in a working screen recorder for Jolla. I have installed the Aliendalvik Superuser and tried two android screen recorder apps without success. Airshou screen recorder did record, but the outcome was just a green screen.

Update: Tried about ten different screen recording apps in android now. None have worked. Some crash, some says android 5.0 is required and some tries to record but ends up with nothing or green screen.

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I've tried lipstick-recorder on 2.0.2.48 but it gives me:

Re: Screen video recorder APK application for Jolla
 

just try with devel-su

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As a root on 2.0.5.6:
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 lead to the same error as above.
I have enclosed rpm because it can be related to photon q sailfish port. It's kimmoli test branch.

Re: Screen video recorder APK application for Jolla
 

I get the same error on 2.0.1.11 as user and root.

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I'm also interested if anyone got lipstick-recorder to run recently – I've only used kimmoli's build as well and get the same errors as mentioned above with and without devel-su on 2.0.2.48.

Also, just blindly checking out https://github.com/kimmoli/lipstick-recorder and starting a build in SailfishOS SDK does not go well and only spits out qmake usage info.

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You need to use platform sdk mb2 to build.

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Hah, thanks, makes sense! Haven't touched matchbox since chinook or diablo for the n810 – and that left me a bit scarred at the time.

Now that I've build it (wasn't bad this time, actually), there's still the protocol error mentioned above when run either as root or nemo. So I guess that wasn't the problem to begin with.

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Maybe root needs to be added to privileged group.
https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/...dacf15b4e15868
usermod -G privileged -a root doesn't work for me.

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Thanks for digging this up! You are awesome!
The commit got me thinking that maybe, just maybe, it only checks for the primary group.
After that, I kind of got it to run. It runs pretty badly but it kind of works!

I've written a test script to do this, but keep in mind:

• Lipstick-recorder creates a lot of .bmp files. Those are huge. (A few seconds ate my /tmp/ space like it was a snickers bar.)
• There's no fixed frame rate with those images… sometimes they are generated faster, sometimes slower
• (Because of the previous problem:) The video file my script creates has a fixed framerate and it's length has nothing to do with the actual duration of recording.
• Encoding the video takes a while.
• It only works once. So choose wisely. (Actually it works again after a reboot. But that's pretty bad)
  (edit: sometimes it seems to work without a reboot – don't know when or why)
• Don't run this from a directory where there are "frame*.bmp" files present. Those will be deleted!

With that out of the way, let's do this.

• Install ffmpeg from openrepos
• Place the following shell script somewhere and make it executable:
  Code:

  ---

  #!/bin/bash
function runRecorder {       
newgrp privileged << END
        XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 lipstick-recorder
END
}
function killRecorder {
        killall lipstick-recorder
        sleep 2
        echo should be killed
}
trackeroutput=$(tracker control --miner=org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Files --pause="makingavideo")
trackercookie=$(echo $trackeroutput| awk '{print $NF}')

runRecorder &
read -n1 -r -p 'Press any key to exit...' key
echo
killRecorder
echo 'making video'

#how many files are there?
count=$(awk "BEGIN {print ($(ls -l frame*.bmp | wc -l) - 1)}")
ints=${#count};

ffmpeg -f image2 -i frame%${ints}d.bmp -threads 3 -framerate 15 "/home/nemo/Videos/recorder-`date "+%Y%d%e-%H%M%S"`.mp4"

echo 'deleting frame*.bmp'
rm -f frame*.bmp
tracker control --miner=org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Files --resume=$trackercookie

  ---

• Run it as root
• …
• Profit!

--- EDITS:
edit 1: removed kill signal 3, that didn't seem to kill it ;)
edit 2: sometimes it works after the first time. don't know when or why
edit 3: Here's a test upload on youtube: https://youtu.be/TulKBs2AyeI
edit 4: lowered video frame rate + added threads in ffmpeg.
edit 5: added tracker pause command hoping it won't try to index the images
---

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Awesome, this is the closest we've got to a screen recorder on Jolla. No android app works so this is really the only way to do it. Please make a simple app of it. Would be über if it could save to SD and be descent in file size.

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An app would be great, I agree!
Sadly that's way over my head, even without fixing the group issue and the need to reboot (or at least restart lipstick). I could offer to make a more or less fancy interface if someone was able to do the "real" programming. ;) I guess, some things in lipstick should be fixed before anyone attempts this.

Oh, and as some confusion came up (via DM):
The script above does indeed turn the .bmp files into a .mp4 video, puts it into /home/nemo/Videos and deletes the images afterwards. It uses the current working directory to store the .bmp files, so you could start it from your sd card to use that as storage for the huge files.

Cheers

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Here's my error output;

Any ideas?

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Have you executed it more than once? If so, try a reboot.

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Okay, I've rebooted, run only once.....and still getting the same error.

Just for the sake of information; I'm using FFMPEG 2.6.2 by BloodyFoxy, downloaded from OpenRepos (https://openrepos.net/content/bloodyfoxy/ffmpeg)

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I had a quick look… and while I got different output both times I tried, the result was the same:
Lipstick-recorder does not seem to produce images anymore for recent Sailfish versions. A shame, really.

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I hope you don't use test branch lipstick-recorder because velox's script require master branch.

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There's a problem with taking screenshots on Sailfish 2.1, they just produce empty images. Maybe it's related to your problem.

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Really?, I'm running 2.1.0.11 and I have no problems taking screenshots using the built-in method for capturing....?

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You're right, it seems like it's only broken on some devices, Jolla 1 is working fine.

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hi,
any screen video recorder in 2020 for sfos 3?

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thank you
why when i record screen and i play avi file it's so speed...
how to record audio + screen video?
during whatsapp video call etc

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read description about framerate. no audio from screen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯