[jasonjmcghee]

Full disclosure, I haven’t tested it on Intel, but I don’t think it will not be able to keep up with taking screenshots, generating ffmpeg videos, and doing OCR that often and will drain your battery very quickly.

But if you / someone can get it to be efficient enough, awesome!

[kevincox]

I think you underestimate computers. Taking 2fps screen recordings is a trivial task. Doing OCR may be slightly more work but at 2fps I doubt it is an issue. Worse case you could tune the OCR frequency based on the computer's abilities.

[frfl]

You're confusing 2fps with 1-screenshot-every-2-seconds (or 0.5fps), what the README actually says).

I wouldn't be surprised if the battery issue is problematic, likely will result in at least some kind of battery life reduction, but perhaps not 30 or 50% at 0.5fps.

I haven't looked into the code, but if you're running ffmpeg, then battery life will likely take a hit depending on what exactly you're doing. Video encoding _can be_ heavy on the CPU/GPU.

[kevincox]

That makes it even less work. Running ffmpeg is just video encoding, I don't think a 0.5fps video would be a huge issue.

Lots of people work plugged in most of the time. I don't see why one would want to gatekeep to keep them from using it.

[beardedwizard]

What gate keeping? I just see a valid correction to your misstatement and your reaction reads like a defensive Karen wrote it.

[kevincox]

Not supporting a platform just because it may cause it may cause battery drain which may not even matter to plugged in users seems like gatekeeping.

[0xDEADFED5]

it's literally an open source MIT licensed hobby project. fork it and improve it and share here. complaining about it is kinda rude.

[jasonjmcghee]

I don’t have an Intel Mac to test on- but you can absolutely just clone it and swap the config to Intel

[beardedwizard]

Not supporting? The commenter simply said it may cause battery drain. It is a discussion on the topic (both sides based purely on conjecture), and a relevant one. You disagreeing does not mean others are "gate keeping". Stop trying to weaponize trendy language and white knight this thread.

[philipswood]

I haven't looked this codebase yet, but a screenshot every few seconds isn't a noticeable slowdown on most machines.

At such slow rates you don't need to create video - you just keep the individual images.

OCR doesn't need to be real-time, but can be done in batch mode or when the machine is idle.

[v3ss0n]

I had been doing that with opensource Linksys ip cameras since 2010 and they only have like 180mhz and 32MB RAM. What are you thinking about?