Questions tagged [screen-capture]

Screen capturing is the act of copying the content of the screen to an image or other data structure, either to a file or memory.

Screen capturing is the act of copying the content of the screen to an image or other data structure, either to a file or memory.

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How to capture desktop screen of computer host where it's running on using node.js

Is there such a way to capture desktop with node.js not a browser tab? I have searched a lot but I didn't find any. What I want is to use node.js to build desktop application.
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Capture Screen Image in C++ on OSX

Is there a way to programatically take a screenshot (or somehow get access to an image) of the current screen display on a mac? Preferably, in C++, not Objective-C.
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Screen capture video in iOS programmatically

I'm trying to create a UIView that allows a user to tap a button in i and record the screen (not make a video from the camera), then save it to the document folder. I've seen a couple of SO articles here that talk about AVAssetWriter and make…
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Screen record a single window

I'm looking for a SDK, plugin or code that will videorecord a specific window (hwnd). If possible in C# or Java. Does anyone know if this exists? I've been googling, but haven't come across anything.
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Reading Steam Controller overlay and render it to a VR scene in SteamVR

Background When using a Steam Controller you can configure the touchpads to be complex menus that show up on the screen when you start touching them. These menus are very handy for games with many controls. They look like this: However when…
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Is there any way to detect a screen capture or recording?

I'm making a Winforms program for a friend, and one of the functions he wants implemented is to hide the contents of a textbox from being recorded; meaning he wants it safe from screenshots and screen recordings. At this point I tried explaining…
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Scan screen for color

I would like, in Java, to scan the screen for a particular color. Any idea how to do that?
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Android Studio Emulator device screen capture screen not available

Using Android Studio in Windows. Trying to get the screenshot. Run my App in Debug Mode. Open the Android DDMS tool window. Click Screen Capture on the left side of the Android DDMS tool window. When the Device Screen Capture window appears,…
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High Quality Screen Capture with FFmpeg

I'm trying to figure out a command for high quality screen capture on REHL. I have tried various options, but none really worked. The quality is not good enough. I'm quite new to ffmpeg and doesn't quite understand all the different flags. So any…
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Programmatically take ScreenShot of Desktop in Ruby?

I asked this question about taking a picture of a webpage programmatically, and I've downloaded and got webkit2png working (taking pictures of HTML pages like blogs and whatnot). So cool, thanks for showing me that! Now I would like to start doing…
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Accessing framebuffer OSX 10.7

I am currently working on a remote desktop type project, in particular I am trying to provide replacement code for the old depreceated methods that were used previously. I have managed this quite successfully, for the most part, but I seem to have…
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Screencapturer for Mac, Webrtc leaves impressions of closed menu

Using desktop capturer in mac, leaves a impression when menu is closed. attached screenshot. The impression is majorly visible on a black background
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Recording iOS Simulator produces empty files

I am trying to record the screen of my iOS 11.4 simulator with xcrun simctl io booted recordVideo recording.mov. This creates a file with that name, but unfortunately that file always has the size of 0 byte. Playing around with the --type parameter…
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DirectX Screen Capture - Desktop Duplication API - limited frame rate of AcquireNextFrame

I'm trying to use Windows Desktop Duplication API to capture the screen and save the raw output to a video. I'm using AcquireNextFrame with a very high timeout value (999ms). This way I should get every new frame from windows as soon as it at has…
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Capturing Screen from iPhone using QuickTime disables sounds on device

I'm not able to play any sound on iPhone device after connecting it via lighting cable to Macbook Pro and enabling "Movie Recording" from this iPhone in QuickTime Player. My goal is not to record movie just displaying on the screen what is going on…
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