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MaartenBaert / ssr

SimpleScreenRecorder, a screen recorder for Linux
http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Black and white check pattern #641

Open courtiol opened 6 years ago

courtiol commented 6 years ago

Hi, Great software! My recordings work mostly fine but they present some glitches: a black and white check pattern appears frequently on part of the screen (it looks like a chess board game). It flickers, it does not last long. I have tried changing codecs and container but the problem remains. I have no idea how I can determine if that comes from your program or something else and how to provide you more information but I will try my best if you let me know what to do. I use Arch with Cinnamon on a intel NUC7. I could try to put a capture on youtube if that helps! ++ Alex

kn00tcn commented 6 years ago

but what are you recording, screen/rectangle/opengl?

MaartenBaert commented 6 years ago

There are known problems with Mutter-based window managers, including Cinnamon. I heard some people fixed the problem by switching to a different Intel video driver (uninstalling xf86-video-intel IIRC). If that doesn't work, consider using a different window manager for recording, like Openbox.

OpenGL recording shouldn't be affected, so that's also an option.

kn00tcn commented 6 years ago

i would see if disabling compositing fixes it before changing WMs

MaartenBaert commented 6 years ago

AFAIK Cinnamon can't run without compositing.

kn00tcn commented 6 years ago

i thought it had an option when i last ran it on raspbian (since compositing performance was awful in cinnamon & budgie, although i think cinnamon was crashing with it disabled)

edit: i mean to say, software compositing vs hardware compositing, hardware is going to be full of opengl driver bugs