Kooha is a screen recorder for Linux desktops that utilizes the Wayland protocol and XDG Portals for secure recording. It functions as a hardware-accelerated screen capture tool that offloads video compression to the GPU to reduce CPU load and power consumption.
The application integrates the PipeWire framework to capture system and microphone audio streams and leverages FFmpeg for muxing video streams and exporting various codecs and containers. Its user interface is a native Linux application built with the GTK toolkit.
The software covers screen recording and capture of entire displays, specific windows, or custom regions. It includes capabilities for multimedia content production and export, allowing users to configure recording settings such as frame rate and pointer visibility.