From d42c74de661405fd93560d877e9482c8cd187929 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott Worley <scottworley@scottworley.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:08:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Videos in $XDG_VIDEOS_DIR (fallback: ~/Videos)

---
 srec.py | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/srec.py b/srec.py
index 0fc81a4..2639ef8 100644
--- a/srec.py
+++ b/srec.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 # Free Software Foundation, version 3.
 
 from dataclasses import dataclass
+import os
 import subprocess
 from typing import Callable
 
@@ -15,25 +16,36 @@ from gi.repository import Gtk  # nopep8 pylint: disable=wrong-import-position
 
 @dataclass
 class Recording:
+    filename: str
     process: subprocess.Popen[bytes]
 
 
 recording: Recording | None = None
 
 
+def make_filename() -> str:
+    directory = os.environ.get(
+        'XDG_VIDEOS_DIR',
+        os.path.expanduser('~/Videos'))
+    os.makedirs(directory, exist_ok=True)
+    return os.path.join(directory, "screen-recording.mkv")
+
+
 def on_start_recording(_: Gtk.Button, stack: Gtk.Stack) -> None:
     global recording  # pylint: disable=global-statement
     assert recording is None
     screen_size = '1366x768'  # TODO
+    filename = make_filename()
     command = [
             'ffmpeg',
             '-video_size', screen_size,
             '-framerate', '25',
             '-f', 'x11grab', '-i', ':0.0+0,0',
             '-f', 'pulse', '-ac', '2', '-i', 'default',
-            'screen-recording.mkv']  # nopep8
+            filename]  # nopep8
     # pylint: disable=consider-using-with
     recording = Recording(
+        filename=filename,
         process=subprocess.Popen(command, stdin=subprocess.PIPE))
     stack.set_visible_child_name("recording")
 
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