Streaming screen capture under Wayland

README.md

Recipes

kmsgrab capture with ffmpeg

sudo LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD ffmpeg -crtc_id 69  -framerate 60 -f kmsgrab -i - -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -filter:v hwmap,scale_vaapi=w=1920:h=1200:format=nv12 -c:v h264_vaapi -profile:v constrained_baseline -level:v 3.1 -b:v 20000k test.mp4

LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD ffmpeg -device /dev/dri/card0 -f kmsgrab -i - -vf 'hwmap=derive_device=vaapi,scale_vaapi=w=1920:h=1080:format=nv12' -c:v h264_vaapi -vstats output.mp4

Allow kmsgrab capture as non-root user

Unsafe but needed

sudo setcap cap_sys_admin+ep $(which ffmpeg)

Src: https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2018-June/040338.html

Wishlist

kms capture to OBS (is there a plugin somewhere?)

Resources

• https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-devices.html#kmsgrab
• https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/VAAPI#DeviceSelection
• https://gist.github.com/Brainiarc7/24de2edef08866c304080504877239a3

OBS

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Streaming_to_twitch.tv

just saw your comment @colemickens

Yeah, I'm aware of wlr-export-dmabuf-unstable-v1 (https://obsproject.com/mantis/view.php?id=719#c3754). I was just wanting to get something working for actual streaming to an RTMP server.

I wonder: could ffmpeg be manually pointed to the right surface for capturing without root via the protocol, as wlstream does, or will it need patching?

I was never able to get dmabuf-capture working, so i guess that's step 0.

https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder might be of help :)

@MonAaraj the difference is wf-recorder receives the video frames via the wlr-screencopy wayland protocol, while this uses dmabufs to avoid copying, see ammen99/wf-recorder#45

https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wlrobs supports wlr-export-dmabuf for zero-copy capture.

Ah, I see! Thank you very much! The reason I commented that was because I was looking for screen recorders other than OBS for Wayland and I found it difficult - I only found wf-recorder and it got the job done, so I thought I might put it here for people who get it from Google like me. Nevertheless, wlrobs seems interesting.