I just discovered a screen recording software in Flathub using the GPU efficiently that works great out of the box on on Wayland, even the hotkeys.
Alternative Video Recorder I use too
OBS, Spectacle, Steam, RetroArch
I also have OBS setup, but that is more suited for a workflow that does not change much in my opinion. I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong here with that. But at least the hotkeys do not work for me on OBS. The GPU Screen Recorder is a bit easier to setup and understand too. For Steam games I do not need this and use the Steam builtin functionality already. RetroArch for emulation of games is problematic, so this tool comes in handy. And Spectacle from the KDE software has some video recording functionality too, but I didn’t got into much yet.
Actually, GPU Screen Recorder is a CLI tool that can easily be automated with scripts. I did not try that yet. The Flatpak version comes with a GUI (GTK) and has a new alternative GUI that resembles the Nvidia Shadowplay look (and looks the same).
I use the Desktop Portal, which will ask me to record a window or application instead the entire screen (but can do that too). It does not require root access for that.
Is the UI inspired by NVIDIA?
Inspired is a bit an understatementf :D I don’t see this as a bad thing, because people used to like it on Windows now get a similar GUI. However you should know that there are two different user interfaces. The Nvidia like one is in experimental phase and you have to opt into it. It looks very familiar:
That’s the new UI (optional). The legacy one is just a gtk window full of options.