In this video I’m showing off a little script I’ve been using on OpenBSD called capscreen, which I wrote to replace OBS for my screen recordings. I’m sitting in the capscreen folder in my terminal and walking through what’s actually in the repo: the script itself, a man page, and a super simple Makefile to install/uninstall it. The recording part isn’t that hard, but yeah—the ffmpeg command can be a bit of a doozy, so the whole point is making it something I can run without re-inventing the wheel every time. I also show a couple small quality-of-life things, like how to read the man page before installing (using man ./capscreen while you’re in the folder). Installing is basically just downloading it and running doas make install, which drops the script in place, makes it executable, and installs the man page (OpenBSD-style, including updating the man database). If you want to adapt it to Linux, it’s not a huge rewrite: swap the SNDIO audio bits in the ffmpeg command over to PulseAudio, and remove the man database update lines from the Makefile because that’ll just throw errors on Linux. Down the line I want to add more features—stuff like moving the webcam overlay around (top-right, bottom-left, etc.), and maybe a config file for output paths and defaults instead of flags for everything. If you try it and it helps you out, let me know.