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<a href="https://videorc.com"><img src="assets/social/videorc-og.png" alt="Videorc: Go live everywhere. Free. One open-source desktop studio streams to YouTube, Twitch, Kick, X, TikTok, Instagram, and any RTMP server." /></a> <a href="https://videorc.com"><img src="https://shieldcn.dev/badge/download-videorc.com-e11d48.svg?variant=branded&logo=apple" alt="Download at videorc.com" /></a> # Videorc Videorc is an open-source, AI-native desktop studio for creators: record your screen and camera, stream to multiple platforms at once, and bring Buddy, an AI producer that keeps up with your chat while you're live. All from one window. **Current release tracks** - **[macOS Beta →](https://www.videorc.com/download/mac)** — macOS 13+, Apple Silicon. Signed and notarized beta builds are the current public desktop release. - **[Windows Alpha guide →](https://www.videorc.com/windows-alpha)** — Windows 11 x64 only. A Windows installer is published only after the signed candidate, clean-machine, malware-scan, update, uninstall, and real-device acceptance gates pass. A CI artifact or unsigned local package is not a public alpha. Both tracks are pre-release software. Expect fast-moving releases, rough edges, and occasional recording or streaming bugs while the app is being hardened. ## Why Videorc Most capture tools make you choose between "simple but shallow" and "powerful but a cockpit". Videorc aims for the third option: a studio that is genuinely simple to run — pick a scene, hit record — while the heavy lifting (a native capture engine, multi-platform streaming, live captions, an AI producer) happens underneath. - **Scenes, not knobs.** Screen + camera, screen only, camera only, or side-by-side splits — with draggable camera placement, corner snapping, shapes, and framing controls. - **Backgrounds with taste.** Bring your own wallpaper (PNG/WebP/JPEG), tune its visibility with one slider, or remove it for a full-bleed recording. - **Record and stream in one pipeline.** Local MKV recording (with automatic MP4 remux), RTMP streaming, or both from a single encode — including simulcast fan-out to multiple destinations with per-target health status. Streaming quality is free on every plan: up to 1080p60, and true 4K30 on YouTube (other platforms ingest up to 1080p). - **Live captions.** Streaming speech-to-text (~1s latency) with optional caption burn-in on the stream, the recording, both, or neither. - **Buddy, your AI companion.** Name it, give it a personality and looks, and it catches questions from every platform with a drafted reply you approve, flags spam and abuse against your own rules, greets first-timers and reminds you of your promises. It posts only in the modes you turn on, and everything is off by default. Cloud AI is opt-in, and after each stream a short report stays on your computer. See [docs/buddy.md](docs/buddy.md). - **Platform-aware preview.** macOS uses a detached native CAMetalLayer preview. Windows Alpha currently uses the documented uncompressed, latest-wins Electron proof surface; it must not be described as CAMetalLayer or as final native parity. - **Gated auto-updates.** Signed, notarized macOS Beta builds update in place. Windows updating is a release-candidate gate and is enabled only for an accepted, signed Alpha feed. ## How it works - **Electron + React** desktop shell (TypeScript, shadcn/ui) for the studio UI. - **Rust backend** owns capture, composition, recording, and streaming; the shell talks to it over an authenticated localhost WebSocket protocol. - **FFmpeg** (an LGPL-compliant build, bundled) drives encoding and output. - **SQLite** local session library — your recordings and Buddy's stream reports stay on your machine. ## Open source & pricing The desktop app — capture, scenes, recording, streaming, captions UI — is free software under **AGPL-3.0**. You can build it, run it, and audit every line that touches your camera, microphone, and screen. Cloud AI features (live captions and Buddy) run through a signed-in Videorc account: the desktop app never holds AI provider keys, and nothing goes to the cloud until you turn it on. Hosted AI is what funds the project. ## Build from source Prerequisites: Node.js 24.x and Rust stable (rustup). macOS source development uses FFmpeg on `PATH`; Windows development fetches the pinned LGPL bundle with `pnpm ffmpeg:fetch:windows`. The checked-in `.node-version`, `engines`, and `packageManager` fields keep local tools aligned with CI; Corepack installs the pinned pnpm 11. ```sh corepack enable corepack install pnpm install pnpm dev ``` The app launches the Rust backend automatically. On macOS, recordings default to `~/Movies/Videorc/Recordings` and session metadata lives in `~/Library/Application Support/Videorc/videorc.sqlite3`; Windows uses its native user data and Videos locations. Developing on Windows? See [docs/windows-dev-loop.md](docs/windows-dev-loop.md) for setup, the version-floor escape hatch, and the fast verify loop. To produce a local unsigned macOS app bundle: ```sh pnpm ffmpeg:build:macos # build or reuse the bundled LGPL FFmpeg pnpm package:desktop ``` See [docs/distribution.md](docs/distribution.md) for signing, notarization, and FFmpeg distribution details. ## Development & verification [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md) is the contributor guide: verification gates, recording and native-preview rules, and repo conventions. The short loop: ```sh pnpm typecheck pnpm build pnpm smoke:dev # records a test-pattern MKV per layout preset — no permissions needed cargo fmt --check cargo test cargo clippy -- -D warnings ``` The full non-packaged acceptance gate (what CI runs) is: ```sh pnpm smoke:local-gates ``` Notable smokes: `pnpm smoke:multistream` proves simulcast fan-out end to end against local RTMP listeners (including the offline-destination failure guarantee), and `pnpm smoke:packaged` exercises a packaged build. None of the default cross-platform smokes require camera, microphone, or screen permissions. The Windows installer lane additionally runs `pnpm smoke:windows-native-screen` against DXGI (gdigrab fallback) and keeps the packaged proof preview live during a real ScreenOnly recording. ## Contributing Videorc's macOS track is in Beta and its gated Windows track is in Alpha. Bug reports with reproduction steps are very welcome; Windows testers should use the privacy-safe Windows Alpha issue form and never attach credentials, recordings, or an unverified support bundle to a public issue. For larger changes, please open an issue first so we can agree on the shape before you invest in a PR. Read [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md) before touching recording or native-preview code — those areas have non-negotiable verification gates. ## Contributors - **[TheOrcDev](https://github.com/TheOrcDev)** — Warchief - **[Jay](https://github.com/radiumcoders)** — Grunt <a href="https://github.com/TheOrcDev/videorc/graphs/contributors"> <img src="https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=TheOrcDev/videorc" alt="Contributors" /> </a> ## License Code: [AGPL-3.0](LICENSE). Brand: the Videorc name, logo, and app icon are not part of the code license — see [TRADEMARK.md](TRADEMARK.md) before distributing a modified build. The bundled FFmpeg is built LGPL-compliant; see [docs/distribution.md](docs/distribution.md) for third-party licensing notes.

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videorc-design

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Videorc's UI design language — a native macOS desktop app on real window glass (vibrancy), built exclusively from shadcn/ui components and Videorc's shared primitives: flush panes, toolbars, grouped lists, glass chips, and a Raycast-style ⌘K palette. Use…

2026-10-13

videorc-live-lab

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Run real live-stream tests of Videorc on the Videorc YouTube test channel - attended on the owner's Mac (plan the run, get the owner's go, go live, drive features, check both what the app did and what YouTube actually received, tear down, report) or…

2026-10-12

videorc-release

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Execute Videorc desktop releases when the user says "release new version", "ship an update", or asks to cut or publish a release. Coordinates signed macOS Beta and Windows Alpha builds, acceptance, storage publication, updater verification, and release…

2026-09-26

videorc-release

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Cut and publish coordinated Videorc desktop releases for the signed and notarized macOS Beta and the signed Windows 11 x64 Alpha, including version/changelog preparation, protected Windows candidate and promotion workflows, release storage publication (Neon…

2026-09-22

cut-it

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creem

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2026-06-04

videorc-design

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Videorc's UI design language — a native macOS desktop app on real window glass (vibrancy), built exclusively from shadcn/ui components: flush panes, toolbars, grouped lists, glass chips, and a Raycast-style ⌘K palette. Use whenever building, styling,…

2026-10-05

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