Python Screen Recorder

Author: larymak

PYTHON APPS/ScreenRecorder/README.md

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+# Screen Recorder Using Python
+
+Go over the code explanation step by step and then run the code to see the result.
+
+The code explanation is under an article on my [Blog page here](https://sweetcode.io/author/hnyakundi/)
+
+The sample output is as shown below.

PYTHON APPS/ScreenRecorder/output.avi

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+import cv2
+import numpy as np
+import pyautogui
+
+# Get the size of the screen using pyautogui
+SCREEN_SIZE = tuple(pyautogui.size())
+
+# Define the codec and create VideoWriter object
+fourcc = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'XVID')
+out = cv2.VideoWriter('output.avi', fourcc, 20.0, (SCREEN_SIZE))
+webcam = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
+
+while True:
+    # Capture the screen
+    img = pyautogui.screenshot()
+
+    # Convert the image into numpy array
+    img = np.array(img)
+
+    # Convert the color space from BGR to RGB
+    img = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
+
+    _, frame = webcam.read()
+    # Finding the width, height and shape of our webcam image
+    fr_height, fr_width, _ = frame.shape
+    # setting the width and height properties
+    img[0:fr_height, 0: fr_width, :] = frame[0:fr_height, 0: fr_width, :]
+
+    cv2.imshow('frame', img)
+
+    # Write the frame into the file 'output.avi'
+    out.write(img)
+
+    # Press 'q' to quit
+    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
+        print("Recording Stopped")
+        break
+
+out.release()
+cv2.destroyAllWindows()