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mhsabbagh / green-recorder

A simple screen recorder for Linux desktop. Supports Wayland & Xorg
GNU General Public License v3.0
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How does the new GIF feature work? #49

Closed orschiro closed 7 years ago

orschiro commented 7 years ago

Great addition with GIF!

How does it work exactly? I tried the following settings, did the recording, then get the message that it's now being processed but then never get to see a GIF in my destination folder.

Tested with the latest version on Ubuntu MATE 17.10 Alpha 2.

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mhsabbagh commented 7 years ago

I'd like to refer you to #48, the details are there.

orschiro commented 7 years ago

Selecting an area first works, thanks!

I think the app should to force the user to select an area. For example, greying out the record button until the area was selected. What do you think?

EDIT:

I should have added that I am also on Xorg.

mhsabbagh commented 7 years ago

Well, for GIF users should select area (even with other apps, using the whole screen and recording it as GIF will give you a huge GIF size and probably it won't work). But since we are providing more than one format to use (MKV, MP4, WEBM, AVI..) users shouldn't be forced to select an area each time.

orschiro commented 7 years ago

Well, for GIF users should select area

Agree...

(even with other apps, using the whole screen and recording it as GIF will give you a huge GIF size and probably it won't work)

...but do all users know this? Especially given that your app attracts a lot of inexperienced users (my guess).