| Readme: | Short: SRecord - screenshots, editor and screen videos, MUI
Author: BeWorld
Type: util/wb
Version: 1.2
Architecture: ppc-morphos
Requires: muimaster.library, z.library, jfif.library, freetype.library
SRecord takes screenshots, edits them and records the screen.
INSTALLATION
Copy the SRecord drawer wherever you like, for example to
SYS:Applications/. Nothing else to install.
SCREENSHOTS
- Capture area: the screen freezes; click a window or drag a region
(with a magnifier). Space: whole screen, Esc: cancel.
- Full screen at once, optional delay of 3, 5 or 10 s.
- A window is captured complete, even where other windows cover it
(Enhanced display engine).
- Video overlays (MPlayer with cgx_overlay, SDL) are captured too.
- Each screenshot is saved (PNG or JPEG), copied to the clipboard and
opened in the editor. PNG with the best filter per row (as libpng).
- Save as: PNG, JPEG, TIFF, ILBM and the installed picture datatypes.
EDITOR
- Arrows (4 styles), rectangles, ellipses, text, numbered steps, blur,
crop, resize (4 times larger at most).
- Each text has its own font (any outline font), size and colour.
- Colour, size and shadow; every object stays editable; undo / redo;
zoom. The handles of the object just drawn work with any tool.
- The edits are kept: a picture can be edited again later.
- Save writes the picture, copies it and closes the editor.
- A capture taken by accident is deleted from the editor.
- Picture size and file size shown under the picture.
VIDEOS
- MP4 (H.264), MPEG-2 (.mpg, for older players) or animated GIF of a
window, a region, the screen or a zone that follows the mouse (M in
the selector; its size in the Video settings).
- Format, quality, frames per second and size can be shown under the
buttons of the main window, kept at once ("Quick settings in the
window" in the Video settings, off by default).
- Mouse pointer and clicks, pause, stop after a time or a size.
- Built-in GIF player; other videos open in MPlayer.
- MP4 and MPEG-2 store a frame only when the screen changed (the time
stamps keep the right speed): light, and nothing is lost to catching
up. MPlayer before 1.6.1 plays such videos too fast: the "Constant
frame rate" option (Video settings) repeats the picture instead.
- Reading video memory is the limit (about 30 MB/s on a Mirari): for
smooth videos, record a region, scale 50 %, 10-15 fps, and close the
SRecord window while recording. The log gives the times per frame.
WARNING: recording an MP4 or an MPEG-2 is very demanding. Reading the
screen and encoding take most of the CPU: the machine (and the programs
being recorded) can become slow while recording, and a full screen at
a high frame rate will not keep up (fewer frames per second). On a slower
machine, keep to a region or a window, scale 50 %, 10-15 fps, the
Ultrafast preset, and no smooth scaling. A GIF is lighter to make but
only suits short, small clips.
WORKSPACE
- Icon toolbars (names in the bubble help); a button opens the captures
drawer.
- Previews of all captures, newest first, in three sizes, with the
picture size and the file size; colours of the MUI theme.
- Multiple selection: Ctrl, Shift or a lasso drawn with the mouse.
- Drag and drop: pictures in from Ambient; previews out to Ambient
drawers (any path, found through Ambient's ARexx port: RexxMast must
run) and to windows that take icons (Accord...).
- SRecord is in the screen bar while it runs: one click for a menu
(captures, record or stop the video, captures drawer, quit), double
click opens the window, as do the hotkey and Exchange (Show); the
icon can blink while recording (option in the Video settings).
Closing the window never quits.
- "Start with MorphOS" in the settings puts an icon in SYS:WBStartup
(SRecord in the background); unticked, the icon is removed.
- Each page of the settings has its own "Reset to defaults" button.
HOTKEYS (defaults)
Print Screen, ctrl F12 capture area (with Shift: full screen)
ctrl alt s capture area
ctrl alt shift s full screen
ctrl alt r record / stop video
ctrl alt m record around the mouse at once / stop
ctrl alt p pause / resume
ctrl alt v show the window
AREXX (port SRECORD)
Scripts and other programs can drive SRecord:
CAPTURE, SCREENSHOT, RECORD, STOP, TOGGLE, PAUSE, RESUME, REPLAY,
STATUS, FRONT.
SHELL
SRecord [keywords] [START] [NOGUI] [SCREENSHOT]
The keywords are those of ENVARC:SRecord.prefs; they also work as
tooltypes, in SRecord's icon or in a project icon that starts it (for
example in WBStartup). A switch is turned off with NO, OFF or FALSE.
LANGUAGES
English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Polish: the
system's (Auto) or the one chosen in the settings.
Copy catalogs/<language>/SRecord.catalog to LOCALE:Catalogs/<language>/.
LOG
On the Log page of the settings and in PROGDIR:SRecord.log.
HISTORY
1.2 (06.11.2026)
- MPEG-2 videos (.mpg) for older players, with a small built-in
FFmpeg (AltiVec) that only encodes what changed on the screen.
- MP4 / MPEG-2: a frame only when the screen changed; "Constant frame
rate" option for MPlayer before 1.6.1. Stop answers at once.
- Recording around the mouse is back: M in the selector, or its own
hotkey (ctrl alt m).
- Optional quick video settings in the main window (format, quality,
fps, size).
- Simpler settings: H.264 and MPEG-2 at a constant quality only (the
rate control choices and the bit rate are gone), Ultrafast by
default; the priority and "read everything" are only keywords now.
- "Captures kept" (General settings, 100 by default): the oldest
captures past that number are deleted.
- Editor: each text has its own font, size and colour (Text window),
the font of the settings is the one of new texts; a picture is
enlarged 4 times at most (8192 pixels a side).
- Fixes: MPEG-2 quality setting, key frames every N seconds with the
variable frame rate, Save from the menu no longer removes the
WBStartup icon, corrupt MP4 files, double start, black bands on the
screen while recording; a right click in the screen bar shows
SRecord's menus, not a capture's; CX_POPUP (a tooltype of the
WBStartup icon) is no longer saved with the settings (SRecord then
always started without its window).
1.1 (03.11.2026)
- Screen bar icon: menu (captures, record / stop, drawer, quit),
optional blinking while recording.
- Closing the window hides it; Exchange Show and CX_POPUP=NO work;
"Start with MorphOS" option.
- Icon toolbars, captures drawer button.
- Editor: Save closes it, delete the capture, handles usable with any
tool, file size shown.
- Workspace: picture and file size, MUI theme colours; drop on any
Ambient drawer.
- MP4 at a constant frame rate (right speed in MPlayer), clean frames
when windows move; smaller PNG files.
- System About box; "Reset to defaults" on each settings page.
- 7 languages.
1.0 (01.11.2026)
- First release.
SUPPORT
Do you like SRecord? https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BeWorldMOS
LICENSE
Copyright 2026 BeWorld. GPL (x264 is GPL, FFmpeg LGPL).
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