Turbo Recorder

High-Quality Screen + Audio Recorder

Turbo Recorder is a fast and reliable screen-recording script designed for GNU/Linux systems running X11. It automatically detects your real screen size, captures with high fidelity, merges monitor + microphone audio, and encodes using VAAPI hardware acceleration for extremely low CPU usage.

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Features

• Auto-detects X11 screen resolution
• Hardware-accelerated H.264 encoding (h264_vaapi)
• Lossless or near-lossless quality
• 96 kHz FLAC audio capture
• Captures monitor + microphone audio
• Stable queues, resampling, amix merge
• Automatic directory creation
• Timestamped filenames

Requirements

• FFmpeg with VAAPI support
• xrandr or xdpyinfo
• PulseAudio or PipeWire
• VAAPI-capable GPU + drivers

Installation

chmod +x turborecorder

Optional:

sudo mv turborecorder /usr/local/bin/

Usage

./turborecorder