----- On Jul 28, 2024, at 10:53 AM, Quack Doc quackdoct...@gmail.com wrote: > Is it possible to use this without using the portals API and without > systemd? That would be much appreciated if so since the portal is not very > flexible.
I don't like the portals API either and would rather not have to use it, but as far as I can tell there is no alternative. All the other projects that use PipeWire for screen capture that I've looked at (e.g. WebRTC, OBS Studio) use it, and according to the XDG Desktop Portal documentation, "the primary way of capturing screens and windows on Wayland desktops is through the ScreenCast portal, and some desktop environments don’t even expose other means to capture the screen or windows." (https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/reasons-to-use-portals.html) > As for systemd it would be great to be able to use this on > non-systemd platforms. Using the ScreenCast portal requires an XDG Desktop Portal backend implementation, see e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/writing-a-new-backend.html I don't know if any backend currently supports non-systemd platforms (on my system at least, the backend is implemented as a systemd service), but assuming you can find one, then it should be possible to get screen capture to work. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
