recordmydesktop/recordmydesktop

Fork of recordMyDesktop X Window System desktop recording abandonware, much bug fixing and general cleanups/rewriting has been done.

recordmydesktop's Issues

--windowid is too fragile and limited

When invoking recordMyDesktop automagically to record newly created windows via --windowid, there's a high probability the specified window will not yet be mapped by the window manager resulting in exiting after failing the check @ https://github.com/recordmydesktop/recordmydesktop/blob/0.5.0/src/rmd_setbrwindow.c#L66-L71, despite the windowid being valid for an existing window.

The existing implementation also doesn't notice when the window moves, and if the window becomes unmapped/invisible during recording perhaps the recording should pause until it's mapped and visible again.

The first issue should at least be fixed to not be so sensitive to races, retrying/waiting or something for the window to become mapped.

But if the windowid-oriented recording mode is changed to actually follow the window and pause/unpause based on visibility and mapped status, such a change would likely also fix the first issue simultaneously.

Officialness of fork?

How semi-official is your fork?

The original software is kind of a dead end for visitors, and is still a recommended solution in some areas for the problem of desktop video.

If we added comments on stale issue threads etc leading to this fork, people would find it, and it could be a successor. What do you think?

note to self: next time just use this energy to add the proposed links, and let the interested people work together to sort out where to land. works better if you forget it later.

Unify the project in this repo?

Enselic/recordmydesktop@796a488 says contributions should be made to this repo; yet this repo lacks any tagged releases, a github pages website, and there are a dozen open issues on that repo.

@Enselic How can the project be unified? :)

X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)

when i run record:

X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)

--use-jack arg parsing is broken

Hi!

I was trying to debug why --use-jack ignores the second port and ended up in this repo.

The following invocation of 460b6f4 (in dwm if that matters)

./recordmydesktop --windowid=0x1400469 --fps=60 --use-jack SuperCollider:out_1 SuperCollider:out_2

gives me an error:

Specified Area is larger than window!

or sometimes

-x must not be less than 0.

Version from Arch repo 0.4.0-2 works fine with --windowid.

rescue mode segfaults

I'm getting different segfaults when I pass --rescue .

Conditional recording

Add options for record optimization.

Record only	Option
when cursor moves	--on-mouse-move
when frame [pixels] change	--on-frame-change

Benefits

Along with -fps <N> this will decrease resources usage drammatically.

Termination of process removes rescue files

This issue is just to remember that shutting your system or desktop down while recordmydesktop is running, may not preserve the recording.