Settings Overview

Segra provides comprehensive settings to customize your recording experience. Settings are organized into sections accessible from the Settings page.

Settings Location

Settings are stored in a JSON file at:

%AppData%\Segra\settings.json

Settings Sections

Account

Manage your Segra account authentication and profile.

• JWT and refresh token storage
• Account linking and authentication

Recording

Configure how Segra captures your gameplay. The Recording section contains Capture Mode, Hotkeys, Video Settings, and Audio, in that order.

You can change Capture Mode, Video Settings, Audio, and Game Integrations settings while a recording is running. The current recording keeps the settings it started with, and your changes apply from the next recording. While changes are pending, Segra shows (applies to next recording) next to the affected section heading and a banner at the top of Settings.

Storage

Manage where recordings are saved and storage limits.

See Storage Settings for detailed information.

Games

Configure game detection and automatic event tracking.

• Auto-record Games (autoRecordGames): Automatically start recording when a game launches. Defaults to true. When disabled, Segra does not auto-start recordings. Games you've added with recording enabled still record, and manual recording still works.

See Game Integration for supported games.

Preferences

Customize the Segra interface and behavior. Preferences are grouped into App and Interface cards:

• Run on Startup: Launch Segra when Windows starts
• Close Button (closeButtonAction): Radio buttons that control what happens when you press the window's close (X) button. Minimize (Minimize to Tray) hides Segra to the system tray so recording continues; Exit (Close App) quits the app. Defaults to Minimize.
• Confirm Before Deleting (confirmBeforeDeleting): When enabled, Segra shows a confirmation dialog before deleting a video, clip, highlight, custom-game executable, or recoverable file. Defaults to false (delete without confirmation).
• Sound Effects Volume: Adjust notification sound levels (0.0-1.0)
• Show New Badge on Videos: Highlight recently recorded content
• Show Game Background: Display game artwork in UI
• Show Audio Waveform in Timeline: Visualize audio in the editor

Advanced

Access advanced configuration options. Update options are grouped under an Updates heading, and online options under Online Features:

• OBS Version Selection (selectedOBSVersion): Choose specific OBS version or use automatic (latest non-beta)
• Update Channel (receiveBetaUpdates): Dropdown — Stable or Beta. When set to Beta, Segra opts into pre-release builds. If the version you're running is no longer published (for example, a release that was pulled), the updater moves you to the latest published release, even if that is a lower version. Stable-channel users running a beta are not downgraded.
• Install updates automatically (autoInstallUpdates): Checkbox in Advanced > Updates. When enabled, Segra installs downloaded updates on its own once nothing is recording and the main window is closed. Defaults to true. Windows only (the Linux Flatpak build hides this setting).

Separate Audio Tracks and What to Record (audioOutputMode) live in the Audio card under Recording. See Audio.

AI & Highlights

• Enable Highlights (enableAi): Enable automatic highlight generation features
• Auto-Generate Highlights (autoGenerateHighlights): Automatically create highlight reels from sessions that contain highlight-worthy bookmarks
• Highlight Padding Before (highlightPaddingBefore): Seconds of context kept before each highlight bookmark (default 4, range 1–60)
• Highlight Padding After (highlightPaddingAfter): Seconds of context kept after each highlight bookmark (default 4, range 1–60)

Menu & Navigation

• Menu Items (menuItems): Toggle visibility for sidebar entries. Known IDs: Full Sessions, Replay Buffer, Clips, Highlights, Settings (the Settings entry is always visible).
• Default Menu Item (defaultMenuItem): The screen Segra opens on launch. Defaults to Full Sessions.

Capture Mode

Segra offers three recording modes:

Replay Buffer Settings

When using Buffer or Hybrid mode, configure:

Audio

Segra supports multiple audio inputs and outputs simultaneously. Configure them in Settings > Recording > Audio.

Selecting Devices

1. Input Devices (Microphones): Click the dropdown and select one or more microphone sources
2. Output Devices (Desktop Audio): Select which audio outputs to capture
3. Volume Control: Adjust individual device volumes (0.0-1.0)

Default Device

The "Default Device" option dynamically tracks your system's default audio device. If you change your default microphone or speakers in Windows, Segra will automatically use the new default.

Per-device input options

Each selected input device has its own Noise Suppression and Mono toggle buttons next to its volume slider.

Advanced audio options

Display Selection

For multi-monitor setups:

Session Management

Hidden Settings

Some settings have no UI toggle and are only editable by hand in settings.json.

Settings JSON Structure

Key settings properties:

{
  "contentFolder": "C:/Users/YourName/Videos/Segra",
  "cacheFolder": "C:/Users/YourName/AppData/Roaming/Segra",
  "resolution": "1440p",
  "frameRate": 60,
  "encoder": "gpu",
  "codec": { "friendlyName": "NVIDIA NVENC H.264", ... },
  "recordingMode": "Hybrid",
  "replayBufferDuration": 30,
  "storageLimit": 100,
  "inputDevices": [
    { "id": "default", "name": "Default Device", "volume": 1.0, "noiseSuppression": true }
  ],
  "outputDevices": [
    { "id": "default", "name": "Default Device", "volume": 1.0 }
  ],
  "keybindings": [
    { "action": "CreateBookmark", "enabled": true, "keys": [119] },
    { "action": "ToggleRecording", "enabled": true, "keys": [120] },
    { "action": "SaveReplayBuffer", "enabled": true, "keys": [121] },
    { "action": "TogglePreview", "enabled": true, "keys": [122] }
  ]
}

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