A screen recording tool that can save to disk (MP4 or MPTS) or stream to a server (RTSP).
ffmpeg is the only dependency. It needs to be installed and should be in PATH (beehive will run commands like ffmpeg ...).
Type make release to build the executable, then type ./beehive_release to run it. Type q or quit into stdin to quit.
First, you need a RTSP server. Easiest one to use out of the box is mediamtx. Expose it globally with something like ngrok. Then, run beehive like above with RTSP output. Finally, the client can use viewstream.py to watch the stream (or any other method to watch rtsp streams).
with my minimal testing, i've found that mpeg4 has lower overhead, but with much worse quality output (color, bitrate, etc). mpegts (using h264) has better quality with more overhead.
- Most CG functions are deprecated on Mac. This results in incomprehensible video. Can't do anything about this.
- On Windows, other windows can overlay streaming one
- 2 window instances for fullscreen VSCode on OSX
- producer and consumer threads for creating images and piping them
- CGDisplayStream vs individual CGWindowListCreateImage calls
- kCGWindowImageNominalResolution vs kCGWindowImageBestResolution