#35 gkt-recordmydesktop slow record

[Anonymous]

gkt-recordmydesktop and qt-recordmydesktop too are recording very slow on my gentoo with nvidia gts250 video card and proprietary drivers installed.
it seems to record a frame every 10-15 seconds and changing advanced options nothing changes.
please help me to understand what happening.

[hellocatfood]

It appears that there can sometimes be issues with certain graphics cards/drivers. I'm using an ATI 4500 and having the same problem. Looks like the only way to solve it is to uninstall the driver when you want to record

[zebul666]

no. this not always related to graphic card driver. I have a nvidia here and the same problem.

I found online this trick that solves the problem http://yuenhoe.co.cc/blog/2010/02/solving-recordmydesktops-slow-framerate-problem/

"If recordmydesktop gives you ridiculously slow frame-rate in it’s output video, you may be a victim of the “libtheora above v1.1.0″ problem. Try the following for a quick-fix:
Add --v_bitrate 2000000 to the options you pass to recordmydesktop."

That fixes the slow framerate problem for me.

[hellocatfood]

I've tried that but still no luck. My problem seems to be linked to this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk-recordmydesktop/+bug/509111. Seems the graphics driver I have doesn't provide hardware acceleration for libfb, which is what is causing the system to slow down.

With the driver disabled it works properly. If recordmydesktop can find a workaround then it'd be great!

[Martin Nordholts]

Thanks for taking the time to report a bug! This issue is now very old. If the problem still exists, please file an issue at the new GitHub page: https://github.com/Enselic/recordmydesktop