I know that OBS has pipewire window/screen capture but I want to use ffmpeg to capture as I can use x11grab on xorg
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Also depends if FFmpeg supports it. Wayland is not mentioned in the Documentation.
https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-devices.html
Edit: Different comment mentioned the wf-recorder, which uses FFmpeg’s libraries but not the CLI utility, so I guess that’s the closest you can get to using FFmpeg. They also show some CLI usage.
Do you specifically need ffmpeg? If it’s just screen recording from the terminal, wl-screenrec has the best performance (meaning low CPU usage) for Wayland screen capture. It does require the new screen capture extensions so it will depend on your compositor.