Not working on Windows

[ed-sparkes]

Says starting recording in 5..4..3..2..1 but then doesn't start recording, does nothing.

Are there any logs anywhere i could look at to see what is going wrong.

I have installed 4.1.1 of FFMPEG from here https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

Many thanks, Ed

[arciisine]

@ed-sparkes Thanks for the report. Last I checked windows was working fine. There should be log output under the chronicler plugin output. Additionally, have you tried letting the plugin install ffmpeg for you? Could be a path issue.

I will give windows another check later tonight to see if anything is up.

[ed-sparkes]

Hmm interesting, i tried letting the plugin install ffmpeg and now it works but not in all my workspaces.

I have a java project. And in there it counts down but doesnt run or do anything, just goes straight back to the start button. But in another workspace for a .net and javascript project it works, strange

[arciisine]

Is it possible to share the workspace, or atleast the vscode settings for the workspace? Nothing is specific to any language, just the vscode version

[ed-sparkes]

These are my only settings and they are user settings not workspace settings so same across all workspaces.

Yes the java repository i have still doesnt start the recorder whilst all my others ones do bizarre, annoyingly its the java one i wanted to record

{ "java.home": "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_151", "java.configuration.checkProjectSettingsExclusions": false,

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "cmd.exe", "terminal.integrated.fontFamily":"Fira Code", "terminal.integrated.env.windows": { "CMDER_ROOT": "C:\Utils\cmder" }, "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [ "/k C:\Utils\cmder\vendor\init.bat" ], "editor.suggestSelection": "first", "vsintellicode.modify.editor.suggestSelection": "automaticallyOverrodeDefaultValue", "chronicler.dest-folder": "~/Recordings", "chronicler.debug": true, "chronicler.ffmpeg-binary": "c:\Users\MYUSERNAME\FF/ffmpeg.exe", "window.zoomLevel": 0, }

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[ed-sparkes]

Even weirder, if i go up a folder to the parent folder it works fine but in the one folder i actually want to record its not working, are there any hidden vscode settings that could be interfering?

On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 13:23, Ed Sparkes ed.sparkes@gmail.com wrote:

These are my only settings and they are user settings not workspace settings so same across all workspaces.

Yes the java repository i have still doesnt start the recorder whilst all my others ones do bizarre, annoyingly its the java one i wanted to record

{ "java.home": "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_151", "java.configuration.checkProjectSettingsExclusions": false,

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "cmd.exe", "terminal.integrated.fontFamily":"Fira Code", "terminal.integrated.env.windows": { "CMDER_ROOT": "C:\Utils\cmder" }, "terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [ "/k C:\Utils\cmder\vendor\init.bat" ], "editor.suggestSelection": "first", "vsintellicode.modify.editor.suggestSelection": "automaticallyOverrodeDefaultValue", "chronicler.dest-folder": "~/Recordings", "chronicler.debug": true, "chronicler.ffmpeg-binary": "c:\Users\MYUSERNAME\FF/ffmpeg.exe", "window.zoomLevel": 0, }

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[arciisine]

Are you sure there isn't a .vscode folder/settings in the folder that isn't working? This seems really odd.

[arciisine]

@ed-sparkes Were you able to figure it out?

[ed-sparkes]

Nope, most frustrating, could it be not playing nice with some other extension that is active in the workspace? Cant find any logs anywhere the recording just doesnt start :(

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@ed-sparkes https://github.com/ed-sparkes Were you able to figure it out?

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[arciisine]

I'm verifying the debug messages, and I can't seem to pull them up other. Let me take a look, I might need to push out an update to resolve this.

[arciisine]

So I didn't even realize, that when I broke out the screen-recording functionality to an external library, that I lost all of my logging. I will take some time to get that back to where it needs to be. If you have a reference project and could let me know the version of windows you are running, that would be helpful. I'd like to try to reproduce your issue locally.

[ed-sparkes]

Hi, so bizarre on the command line i ran cp -r myproject examplefortesting plan was to pair back my code to something generic that still failed that i could share with you. But i thought ill just test record first and it worked, yet in the original folder myproject it still doesnt work.

Ed

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So I didn't even realize, that when I broke out the screen-recording functionality to an external library, that I lost all of my logging. I will take some time to get that back to where it needs to be. If you have a reference project and could let me know the version of windows you are running, that would be helpful. I'd like to try to reproduce your issue locally.

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[ed-sparkes]

Any tips on how to optimise gifs produced? The size seems to depend on the resolution of the monitor on which the recording takes place, which kinda makes sense but not sure i need 4k quality at 5mb for 10 second gif, and nor does my gitrepos readme.md :)

Thanks, Ed

On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 12:55, Ed Sparkes ed.sparkes@gmail.com wrote:

Hi, so bizarre on the command line i ran cp -r myproject examplefortesting plan was to pair back my code to something generic that still failed that i could share with you. But i thought ill just test record first and it worked, yet in the original folder myproject it still doesnt work.

Ed

On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 12:47, Timothy Soehnlin notifications@github.com wrote:

So I didn't even realize, that when I broke out the screen-recording functionality to an external library, that I lost all of my logging. I will take some time to get that back to where it needs to be. If you have a reference project and could let me know the version of windows you are running, that would be helpful. I'd like to try to reproduce your issue locally.

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[arciisine]

@ed-sparkes Sorry for the delay, missed this in the back and forth. You should be able to affect the ffmpeg settings and set the resolution of the output, let me take a look and I should be able to post something this weekend.

[arciisine]

@ed-sparkes The tool now supports setting a property to scale the output animated GIF.