How is a screencast-utility developed programmatically?

89 Views Asked by At

How do screencast-programs like Kazaam actually record a screen from a technical perspective?

1

There are 1 best solutions below

0
On

Screencastsoftware like Open Broadcaster Software make use of the MIT Shared Memory Extension of the X-Server on Linux-Operating system. This extension is meant for exchanging pixel-data of the entire windowing-system between clients (like screencast-software) and the server of the x windowing system via interprocess-communication