Is there an available screen recorder for Linux that can continuously record everything, but only keep the last, for example, 10 minutes in a buffer, and anything older will be discarded?

Sometimes something interesting happens in whatever I’m doing, but replicating it after starting a recorder is hard. I also don’t want to deal with terabytes of video backlog.

Ideally, when something share-worthy has happened, I’d push a button or a magic key combo, and the buffer will be saved to a file.

SOLVED:
ReplaySorcery as suggested by @[email protected] does the job perfectly and just runs unobtrusively in the background after boot.

  • @takeheart
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    613 hours ago

    OBS Studio should be able to to handle that. You can set up hot keys for saving the buffer too.

    • @[email protected]
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      613 hours ago

      They call it the replay buffer, it works well. I use it sometimes when gaming so I can capture a cool clip to share with friends.