Release 0.6

• qvh without Gstreamer is finally stable on MacOSX. I ran it for 16 hours straight on parallel devices and it worked flawlessly.
• before a 1.0 Release I need to see if Gstreamer is stable enough and maybe fix or switch to ffmpeg
• Linux support needs to be improved. It works but it is hard to get going currently.
• Create an issue if you miss anything

1. What is this?

This is an Operating System indepedent implementation for Quicktime Screensharing for iOS devices :-)

Check out my presentation

See me talk about it at GoWayFest

See a demo on YouTube

This repository contains all the code you will need to grab and record video and audio from one or more iPhone(s) or iPad(s) without needing one of these expensive MacOS X computers or the hard to use QuickTime Player :-D

• You can record video and audio as raw h264 and wave audio in the Apple demonstration mode (Device shows 9:41am, full battery and no cellphone carrier in the status bar)
• Also you can just grab device audio as wave, ogg or mp3 without the Apple demonstration mode now 🎉
• You can use custom Gstreamer Pipelines to transcode the AV data into whatever you like

2. Installation

2.1 Mac OSX

1. On MacOS run

   brew install libusb pkg-config gstreamer gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-ugly

2. To just run: Download the latest release and run it
3. To develop: Clone the repo and execute

   go run main.go

   (need to install golang of course)

2.2 Linux

1. Run with Docker: the Docker files are here. There is one for just building and one for running.

2. If you want to build/run locally then copy paste the dependencies from this Dockerfile and install with apt.

3. Git clone the repo and start hacking or download the latest release and run the binary :-D

3. Usage

• For just displaying the screen run

  qvh gstreamer

  and it will work.
• For just getting raw media output without Gstreamer involved use

  qvh record out.h264 out.wav

  or

  qvh audio out.wav --wav

  for audio only
• For troubleshooting run

  qvh diagnostics metrics.csv --dump=binary.bin

  which will persist logs to a file, dump all usb transfers and gather metrics.
• See

  qvh gstreamer --examples

  for transcoding media or streaming.
• For creating mp3 or ogg in audio only mode see

  qvh audio out.mp3 --mp3

  and

  qvh audio out.ogg --ogg

4. Technical Docs/ Roll your own implementation

QVH probably does something similar to what

QuickTime

com.apple.cmio.iOSScreenCaptureAssistant

I have given up on windows support :-) ~~Port to Windows (I don't know why, but still people use Windows nowadays)~~ Did not find a way to do it