Screenme

Local Windows screen recorder with a transparent control bar that stays out of the recording, dual audio (mic + system), HD capture, session folders, and step screenshots.

Everything runs on your PC - no cloud upload.

Features

• Transparent floating controls excluded from capture (WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE)
• HD screen capture via FFmpeg (gdigrab) + x264 / GPU encoders when available
• Microphone + system audio (WASAPI loopback); auto-prefers external mic when connected
• Each recording → folder YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS_to_HH-MM-SS\ with recording.mp4
• Screenshots while recording → step_1.png, step_2.png, … (rapid multi-shot, non-blocking)
• Idle screenshots → %USERPROFILE%\Pictures\Screenme\ (outside video output folder)
• Timer resets to 00:00 on Stop
• Pause / resume, countdown, region select, global hotkeys, tray

Requirements

Item	Notes
Windows	10 or 11
Python	3.10+ on PATH
FFmpeg	bin\ffmpeg.exe (included in Release zip)

Quick start (portable zip from Releases)

1. Download Screenme-portable-*.zip from Releases
2. Unzip anywhere (e.g. C:\Tools\Screenme)
3. Double-click setup.bat once (creates .venv and installs packages)
4. Double-click run_screenme.bat

Recordings: %USERPROFILE%\Videos\Screenme\

From source (developers)

git clone https://github.com/arjncx-lang/Screenme.git
cd Screenme
python tools\download_ffmpeg.py
setup.bat
run_screenme.bat

Or:

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m app.main

Hotkeys

Action	Default
Start / Stop	Ctrl+Shift+R
Pause / Resume	Ctrl+Shift+P
Abort	Ctrl+Shift+X

Privacy / corporate notes

• Capture, encode, and save are fully local
• No account, no telemetry server in this app
• Screen/mic tools may still need IT approval on locked-down devices
• FFmpeg is not committed to git (too large); use Releases or tools\download_ffmpeg.py

License

MIT - see LICENSE.

FFmpeg is under its own licenses (GPL/LGPL depending on build). See the FFmpeg project for details.