PySide6.QtMultimedia.QScreenCapture

class QScreenCapture

This class is used for capturing a screen. More…

Added in version 6.5.

Synopsis

Properties

• activeᅟ - Whether the capturing is currently active

• errorᅟ - The code of the last error

• errorStringᅟ - Human readable string describing the cause of error

• screenᅟ - The screen for capturing

Methods

• def __init__()

• def captureSession()

• def error()

• def errorString()

• def isActive()

• def screen()

• def setScreen()

Slots

• def setActive()

• def start()

• def stop()

Signals

• def activeChanged()

• def errorChanged()

• def errorOccurred()

• def screenChanged()

Note

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Detailed Description

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The class captures a screen. It is managed by the QMediaCaptureSession class where the captured screen can be displayed in a video preview object or recorded to a file.

session = QMediaCaptureSession()
audioInput = QAudioInput()
session.setAudioInput(input)
recorder = QMediaRecorder()
session.setRecorder(recorder)
recorder.setQuality(QMediaRecorder.HighQuality)
recorder.setOutputLocation(QUrl.fromLocalFile("test.mp3"))
recorder.record()

Screen Capture Limitations

On Qt 6.5.2 and above, the following limitations apply to using QScreenCapture :

• It is only supported with the FFmpeg backend.

• On Linux systems using the Wayland compositor, the screen capture implementation is experimental and comes with the following limitations. Due to restrictions of the Wayland protocol, it’s impossible to set and get the target screen via the API of the QScreenCapture class. Instead, the OS will show a screen selection wizard upon invoking QScreenCapture::setActive(true). The screen capture feature requires the installation of the ScreenCast service supported via XDG Desktop Portal and {https://pipewire.org/}{PipeWire} (0.3). These limitations might change in the future.

• It is not supported on mobile operating systems, except on Android. There, you might run into performance issues as the class is currently implemented via QScreen::grabWindow, which is not optimal for the use case.

• On embedded with EGLFS, it has limited functionality. For Qt Quick applications, the class is currently implemented via QQuickWindow::grabWindow, which can cause performance issues.

• In most cases, we set a screen capture frame rate that equals the screen refresh rate, except on Windows, where the rate might be flexible. Such a frame rate (75/120 FPS) might cause performance issues on weak CPUs if the captured screen is of 4K resolution. On EGLFS, the capture frame rate is currently locked to 30 FPS.

See also

QWindowCapture QMediaCaptureSession

class Error

Enumerates error codes that can be signaled by the QScreenCapture class. errorString() provides detailed information about the error cause.

Constant	Description
QScreenCapture.NoError	No error
QScreenCapture.InternalError	Internal screen capturing driver error
QScreenCapture.CapturingNotSupported	Capturing is not supported
QScreenCapture.CaptureFailed	Capturing screen failed
QScreenCapture.NotFound	Selected screen not found

Note

Properties can be used directly when from __feature__ import true_property is used or via accessor functions otherwise.

property activeᅟ: bool

This property holds whether the capturing is currently active..

Access functions:

• isActive()

• setActive()

• Signal activeChanged()

property errorᅟ: QScreenCapture.Error

This property holds the code of the last error..

Access functions:

• error()

• Signal errorChanged()

property errorStringᅟ: str

This property holds a human readable string describing the cause of error..

Access functions:

• errorString()

• Signal errorChanged()

property screenᅟ: QScreen

This property holds the screen for capturing..

Access functions:

• screen()

• setScreen()

• Signal screenChanged()

__init__([parent=None])

Parameters:

parent – QObject

activeChanged(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – bool

Notification signal of property activeᅟ .

captureSession()

Return type:

QMediaCaptureSession

Returns the capture session this QScreenCapture is connected to.

Use setScreenCapture() to connect the camera to a session.

error()

Return type:

Error

Getter of property errorᅟ .

errorChanged()

Notification signal of property errorᅟ .

errorOccurred(error, errorString)

Parameters:

• error – Error

• errorString – str

Signals when an error occurs, along with the errorString.

errorString()

Return type:

str

Getter of property errorStringᅟ .

isActive()

Return type:

bool

Getter of property activeᅟ .

screen()

Return type:

QScreen

See also

setScreen()

Getter of property screenᅟ .

screenChanged(arg__1)

Parameters:

arg__1 – QScreen

Notification signal of property screenᅟ .

setActive(active)

Parameters:

active – bool

See also

isActive()

Setter of property activeᅟ .

setScreen(screen)

Parameters:

screen – QScreen

See also

screen()

Setter of property screenᅟ .

start()

Starts screen capture.

stop()

Stops screen capture.