# cytopia/ffscreencast

ffscreencast - ffmpeg screencast/desktop-recording with video overlay and multi monitor support

Repository: https://github.com/cytopia/ffscreencast
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ffscreencast
Language: Shell
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ffmpeg, ffmpeg-wrapper, screencast, screen-recorder, ffmpeg-command, camera-overlay
Last push: 2024-07-16T12:33:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3991, "days_push": 778, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1824, forks 75 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:41.221500+00:00)

## What it is
ffscreencast is a shell wrapper around ffmpeg that provides fool-proof command-line screen recording with automatic detection of monitors, cameras, and microphones. It supports overlaying the webcam stream on the desktop recording and can also act as an ffmpeg command generator.

## Use cases
- record my desktop from the command line
- screencast with webcam overlay
- record a specific monitor on a multi-monitor setup
- generate ffmpeg commands for screen recording
- record screen and microphone together
- create tutorial videos with facecam

## When to choose
- you want simple CLI-based screen recording without a GUI
- you need webcam overlay on your screencast
- you want to learn or reuse the underlying ffmpeg commands
- you're on macOS or Linux and want multi-monitor and device auto-detection

## When to avoid
- you need Windows or FreeBSD support (not yet implemented)
- you prefer a graphical screen recorder
- you need live streaming rather than recording to file

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: video-processing, cli
- domain: media, developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: ffmpeg, screencast, screen-recording, webcam-overlay, multi-monitor, shell-script, command-line, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- cytopia/ffscreencast (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:41.221500+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:19:43.410052+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cytopia/ffscreencast (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:41.221500+00:00, sha 88e23bd07e88)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.