VisionPiper

Offline

Standalone macOS menu bar app for screen capture, recording, GIF conversion, and live WebSocket streaming.

Capabilities

Region Capture

Select any screen region with an 8-window border architecture (4 edges + 4 corners) and pass-through interior.

Recording

SCStream + AVAssetWriter for H.264 .mp4 output. GIF conversion via vendored cgif + libimagequant.

Live Streaming

WebSocket on port 10000. Metal JPEG frames streamed to browser via createImageBitmap().

Build & Run

./build.sh --visionpiper — incremental build, preserves TCC permissions. Add --clean to reset DerivedData, --reset-tcc to re-grant screen recording access.