This script captures area around mouse cursor using mss library and saves captured frames as images. Code is able to capture smooth framerate on desktop and fullscreen applications. Right now it is only tested on Windows.
mss (ver 5.1 was used originally)
- Add script to render gifs or movies from set of image frames
- Improve gif optimization
- Ensure multiplatform support
- Add shortkeys support
Probably due to excellent quality and size of created gifs using gimp library in python is a way to go, so this will be object of focus for next update.
Script was written with argparse library, so you can always type python main.py -h for help with arguments. In default mode screen capture is set to record square part of the screen 400x400 for 10 seconds. To set record mode for 2 seconds with 500x500 resolution use:
python main.py -s 500 -t 2Script capture frames and saves them in img folder in main directory. To additionally create a gif from images add flag -m True
Output result rendered in GIMP:
Current approach of rendering gifs with pillow library is not perfect. It is fast indeed, but makes artifacts on image and produce bigger files than gifs rendered with GIMP. GIF rendered with pillow can be seen below:
GIF [10 MB]
