Changes

Changes in the next Feature- and Bugfix-Release 4.8.0, is expected to be released on Jan 1, 2026
Wayland: [Snapshot] Added button to reset SecondsWaitBeforeRecording
Wayland: [Snapshot] Added button to reset HideBeforeRecording
Wayland: [Snapshot] Added button to reset formats
Wayland: Added to log the disk space at the end of the recording
Wayland: Added a link to open the folder in the Snapshot Message Dialog
Wayland: Systray added
Wayland: Without a created snapshot the folder will not open
Wayland: Snapshot buttons font in bold
Wayland: Added push button pause
Wayland: Added push button to open the video folder
Wayland: The wrong class was used for the range selection
Wayland: Temporary tab deleted
Bug_report.md: Path for log under Flatpak added
Translation: Updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 4.7.0 from Oct 01, 2025
Wayland: Removed tooltip for Start and Stop
Bug_report.md: Path for log added
Flatpak: Download page revised
Readme.md: Adjusted
Codec: VP8 removed because not suitable for recording
Translation: Updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 4.6.0 from Jul 01, 2025
Wayland: Countdown better display if screen scaled
Aera: Displayed size doesn't match pixels when scale
Setting: Was not saved
Countdown: Was not displayed in the center of the screen
Translation: Updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 4.5.0 from Apr 01, 2025
Wayland: Removed combobox for formats and video codec
Audio(linux X11): ON-OFF switch for level meter built in
Wayland: Added reset for separate audio tracks
Wayland: Added reset for videopath
Camera: Flip vertical was swapped
Wayland: New video path was not saved
Wayland: Added convert mkv to webm
Formats: AVI and MOV removed because not suitable for recording
Openh264enc: Change multi-thread to 0
Wayland: Added separated audio tracks
Wayland: Preparing the online help
Translation: Updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 4.4.0 from Jan 01, 2025
Wayland: New recording security concept, only video mkv format is available. Read why this was implemented
Wayland: Repairs broken mkv
Wayland: Added convert to MP4 and GIF
CLI: Unused arguments removed
Log: GUI log is now read from the log file
Gui: After Stop, Screen and Area Combobox was not disabled
Wayland: Snapshot add seconds wait before recording
Flatpak: GIF encoder added
Wayland: Detecting the pipewire version
Camera: Remove ampersand
Wayland: Added second wait before recording
Wayland: When the program starts, only the first tab may be displayed
Wayland: Crashes if clicked toolbutton log
Wayland: Double selection of the area under KDE version 6
Translation: Updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 4.3.0 from Oct 01, 2024
Wayland: When closing the GUI, the recording was not terminated properly
Audio: No selection when text is clicked
Wayland: Maximum frame rate limited to 60 fps
Wayland: Audio recording added
Wayland: New portal, access via the portal and video recording now stable
Wayland: Gui revised
Profiles: New
GUI: PushButton, toolbutten, combobox css revised
Magnifier: Toolbutten reworked
Camera: Changing the language using the dropdown menu doesn't work properly
Camera: Shortcut was broken
GUI:Tooltip on stop button does not show the correct shortcut
GUI: Help button for resetting all settings was not aligned correctly
PushButtons: Not clearly visible under GNOME whether it is on or off
GUI: The text for audio devices was pixelated
Translation: Updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 4.2.0 from Jul 01, 2024
Video: Settings moved into the first tab
Windows: Changed from WASAPI to WASAPI2
Windows: Removed DirectSound
GUI: Usability button Halo and ShowClick
Audio: Recording devices are identified by an image as a microphone or speaker
Audio: Added levelmeter
Audio: Settings moved into the first tab
Magnifier: Does not display correctly when the screen is scaled
Wayland: Camera expanded
Logging: Now also records the log in main.cpp
Windows: Removes gstreamer.registry at startup
Wayland: Message dialog better display if screen scaled
Wayland: Countdown better display if screen scaled
Wayland: Flatpak x264 has been removed from the supported encoders tab bar
Windows: Screen identification does not work correctly
Countdown: Does not display correctly when the screen is scaled
Halo: When using multiple scaled screens, is not displayed correctly
Showclick: When using multiple scaled screens, it doesn't move to the right place
Translation: Updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 4.1.0 from Apr 01, 2024
Windows: Window recording added
Windows: Redistributable removed, only required files are included
Windows: New Screen Manager based on GStreamer
Linux: Changed all Q_OS_LINUX to Q_OS_UNIX
Windows: Switching from gdiscreencapsrc to d3d11screencapturesrc
Windows: Added GIF
Windows: Switching from MINGW to MSVC
Qt: Minimum version 6.6.0
Wayland: Added Snapshot
Wayland: Simple camera support based on pipewire
Linux: Logo adapted for Flatpak
GUI: Better display when moving the mouse over the pushbuttons
Wayland: Logo adapted for Flatpak
Wayland: All existing settings will now be saved
Readme: Adapted to the latest version
Camera: Frameless works not under Linux Desktop MATE
Translation: Updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 4.0.0 from Jan 01, 2024
Halo: X11 and Windows better display when the screen is scaled
ShowClick: X11 and Windows better display when the screen is scaled
Pro-file: Delete not needed lrelease stuff
Area: X11 and Windows better display when the screen is scaled
Wayland: Added countdown
Wayland: Recording time was not displayed
Wayland: Area did not work properly under GNOME
Wayland: Area position/size wrong on Wayland with scaling
Wayland: Area better display when the screen is scaled
Wayland: GUI revised
Windows: The window minimizes when dealing with settings
Pro-File: Removed double call for translation
Log: Source code has been revised
Locale: After close the GUI the tmpdir was not removed
Systray: Segfault on startup [GNOME/X11]
Qt: Change from Qt5 to Qt6
Camera: Reading and setting the video formats
Camera: Multiple cameras simultaneously
Translation: Updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 3.8.0 from Oct 01, 2023
Wayland: GUI revised
Player: The Windows version now includes all video and audio codecs
Folderdialog: For linux new written. For Windows nativ
Filedialog: For Linux revised. For Windows nativ
Player: New written based on Gstreamer
Camera: Under Windows circle and ellipse better antialiasing
GUI: Dark mode added
Area: No hiding the handles with start timer
Windows: Openh264 changed to version 2.3.0
Windows: GStreamer changed to version 1.22.5
Windows: Many source code changes for Gstreamer 1.22.5 and openh264 2.3.0
Language: Can now be changed in the GUI
GIF: Added as a new format(Linux only). Requires package gstreamer-plugins-rs
File-Format: Muxer, codec, suffix outsourced to a separate class
Snapshot: Changed the constructor parameter
Snapshot: After restoring, the GUI was always behind existing windows
Magnifier: Flickering on some KDE desktop effects
SpezialSlider: If range changed, value shows outside circle
Codec: For better understanding, "Quality" has been changed to "Compress" and given an icon
Translation: Updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 3.7.0 from Jul 01, 2023
Magnifier: Can now magnify 2x to 4x
ShowClick and Halo will be disabled when capturing a window
Qt6: The camera module has been rewritten and is ready
Camera: Rename member cameraWindow to vkCameraWindow
Onlinehelp: Was broken on some systems with the linux installer, missing openSSL-3
Area: Compatible with Mate Desktop
Pro-file: Add camera-qt6.pri and player-qt6.pri
Player: Better hint for the decoder in the player
GlobalShortcut: Adjustment to Qt6
Network: Adjustment to Qt6
ComboBoxVideoCodec: Wrong signal
SpezialSlider: SliderX264 and sliderLimitOfFreeDiskSpace insert on wrong index
Halo: Big handle change to small handle
ImageFromTabs: Added rounded corner
WASAPI: Has not worked
Translation: Updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 3.6.0 from Apr 01, 2023
QvkVersion: Qt6 compatibility. QRegExp replaced
QvkHelp: Qt6 compatibility. QRegExp replaced
Pro-file: Qt6 compatibility. Delete x11extra
QvkMainWindow: Qt6 compatibility. Delete QX11info stuff
Halo: Qt6 compatibility. Back to version 3.3.0 and delete QX11info stuff
QvkAnimateWindow: Qt6 compatibility. Delete QX11Info stuff
QvkSystrayAlternativeWindow: Qt6 compatibility. Delete QX11Info stuff
QvkCountdownWindow: Qt6 compatibility. Delete QX11Info stuff
Pro-file: Add Qt6 compatibility
Readme.md: Delete Windows 32 bit stuff
Transifex: Switch to the new cli client
Systray: Qt showMessage replaced
Snapshot: Area wait before record
Log: Add Button open folder
Pulseaudio: Add audioresample
WASAPI: Record more as one devices
Magnifier: Rectangle as default
Magnifier: Icons created in css
Translation: Updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 3.5.0 from Jan 01, 2023
Pulseaudio: Added two audio channels for monitor, if more as one devices are selected.
Windows: Multi-screen detection revised
GUI: Added screen osd
Snapshot: Open Folder in the Snapshot tab now only opens the Pictures folder
Cisco: Note changed when downloading
Magnifying: Shows which screen it is on
Snapshot: GUI can be hidden.
Snapshot: New icon
GUI: CornerWidget revised
GUI: Colors adjusted, audio, area, etc.
SpezialCheckBox: Pictures moved to picture folder
Magnifier: Added circle and elipse
openh264: Added test for profile
Codec: x264 removed from Flatpak for legal reasons
GUI: Variable from separator in extra line
GUI: Removed video and audio mimetype
Radiobutton: Added hover and disabled
Checkbox: Added hover and disabled
Area: Color matched
Player: Buttons color matched
Area: Keyboard control was broken
SpizalSlider: Added pressed and hover
GUI: Window selection cursor color matched
GUI: Camera icons have been color matched
GUI: Accept-icon color matched
SystrayAlternative: Added Snapshot
Snapshot: Added new info window in systray
GST_DEBUG_LEVEL: If level is not set, an empty file is created
GUI: Adjusted the layout of the audio devices
Snapshot: Added more information to log
Translation: Updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 3.4.0 from Oct 01, 2022
GUI: New Checkbox created in CSS
GUI: New Radiobutton created in CSS
GUI: Slider completely rebuilt in CSS and bug fixed
GUI: All QMessage icons replaced with custom icons
Log: User friendly GStreamer debugging to a file
QvkRegionChoise: Removed QX11Info stuff
QvkWinInfo: Class QX11Info replaced
Halo: Changed from a small window to a transparent full screen
GUI: Add dialog if no codec found
Log: Removed email report
Magnifier: Rebuilt from scratch for multiscreen
Windows: Screens detected by name instead of index
Camera: Busy window redesigned
Camera: New feature circle
Camera: New feature ellipse
GUI: Icons in sidebar changed from 72x72 to 40x40
Log: Version query, fprintf output replaced by qDebug
GUI: German "STRG" key and space before "Start / Stop"
GUI: PushButton folder opens the video or the picture folder, depending on the last action
Snapshot: Added as new feature
GUI: Better integration whether video folder exists and has write permissions
Systray: In the Flatpak it is not closed
Translation: Updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 3.3.0 from Jul 01, 2022
GUI: Added dialog if have no write access
Log: Add install path
GUI: ShowClick insert in a tab
ShowClick: If switched on under Gnome, the vokoscreenNG window is not closed
ShowClick: If switched on under Gnome, no folder is opened in file manager by double-clicking
Log: From now on only the fixed style "Fusion" will be shown
Halo: Inner circle slider moved to second place
Systray-Alternative: Show shortcut in menu
Systray-Alternative: Camera, Magnifier, Showclick and Halo added to the menu
Desktop: The path was stored absolutely in the desktop file
Installer-Linux: An old installed version no longer needs to be uninstalled
Log: Detects when Windows is running in a virtual environment
Systray: Show shortcut in menu. Only if the desktop supports it
GUI: New icons, start-, stop-, pause.png
Camera: New feature zoom
Camera: New feature stepless resizing
Camera: New feature move frameless window
Area: New mouse pointers
Translation: updated
Feature and Bugfix-Release 3.2.0 from Apr 01, 2022
DirectSound: Information if no devices were found
WASAPI: Information if no devices were found
Halo: Set new hole value
Openh264: If network does not exist, the sidebar is not displayed
Pulseaudio: Third party software loses keyboard focus
Shortcuts: Did not work correctly, STRG changed to CTRL
Windows: Changed GStreamer to 1.20.0
Log: File name adjusted
Player: Showed filename and path in the title bar instead of just the filename
Log: New code to write in file
Log: Detects when Linux is running in a virtual environment
Log: Added timestamp
Player: File open dialog lost path when reopened
Pulseaudio: Better sound recording when multiple recording devices are selected
Pulseaudio: Added readable device name to volume control
Pulseaudio: Message in audio tab if no Pulseaudio server found
Translation: updated
SRC: Mail address changed in all files
Feature and Bugfix-Release 3.1.0 from Dec 31, 2021
Windows: Usr-share-local-icon folder removed from the installer
Cisco: Progress indicator added to the download dialog
GUI: The Help button has been removed from the title bar of the Player, VideoPath and Cisco-License dialog
Cisco: Added a close button to the licence dialog box
Translation: Added Esperanto, Danish, Vietnamese
Videopath: Change system-filedialog to Qt-filedialog
Player: Change system-filedialog to Qt-filedialog
GUI: Download link changed
Log: Kernel version added
GUI: Fusion is now the style for all operating systems
GUI: vokoscreenNG create his own images from all tabs
Information: Display audio codec set or not set
Camera: Removed workaround for a Qt bug
Systray: Camera, Magnifier, Showclick and Halo added to the menu
GUI: Global keyboard shortcuts can be changed
Magnifier: Added tooltip for global shortcut
Camera Linux: The camera window is now also displayed over a full screen window
Camera: Settings dialog out side from screen
Windows: Changed Qt to 5.15.2
Windows: Changed GStreamer to 1.18.5
Windows: Change to 64-bit, the 32 bit version has been discontinued
Windows: Change Qt-Installer-Framework from 4.0.1 to 4.2.0
Qt: Required >= 5.14
GUI: New sidebar
Systray-Alternative: Better look without compositer
Systray-Alternative: Version information added in menu
Systray-Alternative: Hide from taskbar
Systray: Change from system-icons to own icons
Countdown: Better look without compositer
Countdown: Hide from taskbar
License dialog: Close button added
Countdown: Added cancel button
Systray-Alternative: Change from system-icons to own icons
Recording window: Better integration "mouse over activates window"
Camera: Combobox resolution was not deactivated if no camera was found
Audio: Better hint if no audio recording device was found
Area: Mouse pointers now look the same on all operating systems
Wayland: Experimental support
Log: Added QLoggingCategory::defaultCategory, fault in Fedora 34
GUI: Class for icons deleted
Systray: Version information added in menu
Mouse: New feature halo
Mouse: New feature showclick
GUI: All icons revised in tabs
Bugfix-Release 3.0.9 from Mai 26, 2021
openh264: Renamed to H.264
VP8: Add slider for quality.
Settings: Video and audio codec were not set correctly from the settings.
Wayland: Add wayland-client.h
Onlinehelp: Tmp dir was not removed
GUI: The on/off switch for the systray was not deactivated during the recording.
Gui: Restore window, after it has been minimized.
Screen Manager: Small changes.
GUI: All dropdown combo boxes no longer show the content shortened if the content is too long.
Area: Selected button is better highlighted.
Log: Information about Pulseaudio version.
openh264: Set usage-type from screen to camera. Remove num-slices and max-slice-size.
Camera: When enlarging the camera window, with a small camera resolution, now a better picture.
GUI: Always started at position 0.0
Audio: Remove AAC, legally disputed license.
Area: At the end of the recording, the buttons is displayed in the frame.
Countdown: Appears now on the same screen as the area.
VAAPI: Remove support. Reason: Package discrepancy between the many Linux distributions.
Wayland: Under wayland the GUI is now hide. It comes only a dialog this says, wayland is not supported.
Windows: Remove video codec x264, legally disputed license.
Windows: Automatic download of the openh264 codec from cisco.
Windows: Incorrect capture if second screen is the primary screen.
Bugfix-Release 3.0.8 from Jan 31, 2021
x264: Unneeded presets removed
Area: Removed predefined areas. Reason: Not intuitiv, design is broken and Recording error.
vaapih264enc: Add h264parse
Camera: Combobox for resolution added in the dialog window
FPS: Limited to the vertical refresh rate of the screen in Hz
Log: Count CPU
Camera: Resolution could not be changed during camera playback.
Language: Add Arabic, Greek(Greece), Thai(Thailand), Serbian
Windows: Change Qt-Installer-Framework from 3.2.2 to 4.0.1
Bugfix-Release 3.0.7 from Sep 30, 2020
Magnifier: Magnifier now on all screens. Reason: Magnifier show only on the primare screen
Audio: Devices are now detect directly by Pulseaudio. Reason: The monitoring of the devices under GStreamer 1.16.x is broken.
Camera: Resolutions is now read out. Reason: Fixed resolution 640x480 is not supported by all cameras.
Log: Files are now kept in unlimited numbers
Log: More information about Videopath
Bugfix-Release 3.0.6 from Aug 31, 2020
Audio: Fix bug. Reason: Can crash on startup.
Audio: Added buffer for audio encoder. Reason: For some machines dropouts were reported.
x264: Added profile high-4:4:4 to profile baseline in a Combobox. Reason: The profile high-4:4:4 has better colors if desired.
GUI: Player have now tango icons. Reason: Uniform look of the GUI.
GUI: Setting for audio codec moved to the second tab. Reason: Better Usability.
vaapih264: Add slider for quality. Reason: The default setting sometimes has artifacts.
openh264: Add slice-mode, num-slices and max-slice-size buffers. Reason: The default buffer is too small with frequent change of scene.
openh264: Changed the slider for quality from min=0 max=50 to min=1 max=51. Reason: Wrong values.
openh264: When recording, slider and button will now disabled. Reason: Better Usability.
Windows: New Windows logo
Windows: Third party licenses added
Bugfix-Release 3.0.5 from July 31, 2020
Screen: The automatic detection when changing the resolution was broken
Qt: Adapted to Qt 5.15.0
Language: Add Portuguese(Brazil), Spanish(Argentina), Spanish(Latin America), Polish(Poland), Basque(Spain)
Audio: Change from adder to audiomixer
Audio: Change from encoder facc to voaacenc
Audio: Removed audio codec OPUS from format MOV
GUI: Tabs, reset and help buttons now look the same under Linux and Windows
GUI: Disable pushButtonSendReport for Linux
Camera: Remove help-button from camera dialog
Windows: Add vokoscreenNG-Icon into exe, icon now appears in Explorer
Windows: Add WASAPI
Windows: Add, recording from playback devices under WASAPI
Windows: Pipeline_structured_output had the wrong end of line
Windows: Better labeling in the log between WASAPI and DirectSound
Windows: Change openh264-2.0.0 to 2.1.1
Windows: Change GStreamer 1.14.4 to 1.16.1
Bugfix-Release 3.0.4 from Apr 30, 2020
Language: added Slovenian, Japanese(Japan)
Screen: Resolution not correct
Audio: Add codec faac
Folder: Button cannot handle spaces
Record: If the filesink has a space, the recording is broken
Area: supports now multiscreen
Countdown: Record an fullscreen, countdown is now on the selected screen
CLI: Command line options revised
GUI: The frame-reset-button was not disabled by recording
GUI: Visible frame in the settings of fps removed
Bugfix-Release 3.0.3 from Mar 31, 2020
Systray: Better icons for Pause and Continue
Frames: Without reset button
Camera: If the camera is busy, this will be displayed, or is not in combobox
Windows: Globalshortcuts was broken
Language: added Spanish(Mexico), Slovak (Slovakia)
Area: Adapted to Ubuntu GNOME
Audio: Hint if no audio devices found
Systray: If new version show ballon
Windows: Add openh264
Camera: Windows and Linux have now the same code base
Windows Player: Font in tooltip is white on white background
Windows: Change Qt-Installer-Framework from 3.2.0 to 3.2.2
Bugfix-Release 3.0.2 from Feb 11, 2020
x264: Codec requires resolution with even values
Audio: Recording only with one chanel
Webcam: Image is upside down
Windows: Executable file is now started directly instead of using a script
Bugfix-Release 3.0.1 from Jan 31, 2020
Player: Format_RGB32 for Windows
Player: Notification if codec or service is missing
x264enc: add profile=baseline
Language: Select the language for the online help via a combobox possible
Language: Add three new language
Online-Help: Change from http to https
Online-Help: German umlauts
Release 3.0.0 from Dec 31, 2019
New version 3.0.0 released