#38 Full Desktop > Desktop in performance and features

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: hwkil...@gmail.com

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. In KDE (or any other Window Manager/DE that will support the "Full Desktop" as a source, select Full Desktop.
2. Output: 720x480
3. Observe
4. Remove the "Full Desktop" source, add the "Desktop" source.
5. Output: 720x480, Change the "Positition" width/height to match the full desktop resolution (1440x900 in my case)
6. Observe. The windows stutter, performance is bad, and composited applications are not shown as compositing.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
When using "Full Desktop", performance is great and transparency/compositing is recorded.
When using "Desktop", performance is not good, and transparency/compositing isn't recorded.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
.57beta2
Arch Linux 64bit

Please provide any additional information below.

"Full Desktop" does not work in Openbox or Compiz-standalone. I'm not sure why this is. It works fine in KDE though. Instead, I tried using the "Desktop" source and resizing it to broadcast my entire desktop. The performance is just too poor and compositing is left out.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: patrick.balleux

Desktop source is pretty heavy on cpu usage.  Trying to capture the whole desktop requires a really powerful computer.  Nothing more can be done for now.

That's why Full desktop source was added as it is using gstreamer to capture the desktop.  As to why gstreamer is not able to capture the desktop in Openbox probably has to do with the DM not providing the capture API for gstreamer.

I'll see what I can do...

Status: Accepted