Support screen recording

[desugar-64]

Feature request: Support screen recording

[meiser79]

duplicate of #21

[rom1v]

This is implemented in v1.5:

scrcpy --record file.mp4

🎉

[Noob567]

And how to stop screen recording?

[rom1v]

@Noob567 It stops when you close scrcpy.

[KeronCyst]

In the above code where it says file.mp4, could file be made dynamic (like maybe *.mp4 where the filename becomes a timestamp) to prevent accidental overwriting? That'd rock!

[KeronCyst]

Also, is it possible for non-microphone audio recording to be added?

[lae]

@KeronCyst you can do this in bash.

scrcpy --record $(date +%s).mp4

There's also the audio branch but I haven't been able to get it working myself.

[KeronCyst]

Sorry, by "bash" do you mean I can just enter that exactly as you put?

[lae]

In a terminal, yes.

For context, the default shell in most Linux distributions is usually bash, which has its own scripting syntax. What I wrote basically runs the date +%s command in a subshell (you can think of it as an embedded command), which gives you the current timestamp (the date command can be used to output any date format, check out date --help), then feeds it into the original shell, e.g. scrcpy --record "movie-$(date +%s).mp4" turns into scrcpy --record "movie-1549232396.mp4".