vokoscreen in meta-installer

[dolphin_oracle]

Has anyone tried vokoscreen from the meta-installer. If I record audio, I get a message about ffmpeg crashing.

[richb]

Has anyone tried vokoscreen from the meta-installer. If I record audio, I get a message about ffmpeg crashing.

I can't get my mic to work, but no crashing when recording.

[dolphin_oracle]

Mine won't go 3 seconds without crashing, if I'm recording audio.

[Stevo]

Mine won't go 3 seconds without crashing, if I'm recording audio.

Do any error messages show up when running it from a terminal?

And which version of vokoscreen? I see 1.8.10 is now in wheezy-backports...

OK, I've just built 1.9.0, can you try this one out, too?

http://ubuntuone.com/5PzfqRNTYv2znjHihSyhA6

[Stevo]

I get about two seconds of audio now with 1.9.0 before the sound stops, with the video continuing.

This is a headache, because the sound worked, though it did get out of sync, when I first built and tested 1.9.0 at the beginning of Feb--I still have the saved .mkv videos--and I can't think of what has really changed in the meantime that can affect it.....

OK, sound seems to work when I restrict the area to a window, I wonder if fullscreen is too much for my laptop, even with reducing framerate. Also, mpeg4 recording to an .avi file seems to be broken.

[richb]

It was my idea to put it in the meta installer, but perhaps it should be removed, if some systems are going to have resource or sound problems.

[dolphin_oracle]

Mine won't go 3 seconds without crashing, if I'm recording audio.

Do any error messages show up when running it from a terminal?

And which version of vokoscreen? I see 1.8.10 is now in wheezy-backports...

OK, I've just built 1.9.0, can you try this one out, too?

http://ubuntuone.com/5PzfqRNTYv2znjHihSyhA6

I get the amazing message:

"ffmpeg has crashed".

I'm in the middle of backup from restore, so I'll try the new version and report back with the output from the terminal.

[dolphin_oracle]

Here are the results of the new vokoscreen_1.9.0-1mcr120+1_i386.deb version . It still crashed:

screenshot of crash message in gui

Screenshot.jpg

and the terminal output from a second attempt.

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dolphin@mx1:~
$ vokoscreen 

[vokoscreen] Locale: "en_US" 
[vokoscreen] Version: "1.9.0" 
[vokoscreen] Qt Version:  4.8.2 
[vokoscreen] asoundlib Version: "1.0.25" 

[vokoscreen] ---Begin Search external tools--- 
[vokoscreen] Find avconv Version: "9.10-6:9.10-1~bpo70+1" 
[vokoscreen] Error: pactl is not found, this is an PulseAudio-utils tool. Please install pactl 
[vokoscreen] Find mkvmerge 
[vokoscreen] ---End search external tools--- 

[vokoscreen] ---Begin search Videoplayer--- 
[vokoscreen] Find Videoplayer : "/usr/bin/avplay" 
[vokoscreen] Find Videoplayer : "/usr/bin/vlc" 
[vokoscreen] ---End search Videoplayer--- 

[vokoscreen][Regional selection] Frame locked: false 

[vokoscreen] ---Begin search PulseAudio Plugin--- 
[vokoscreen] Found file .asound for PulseAudio Plugin 
[vokoscreen] ---End search PulseAudio Plugin--- 

 
[vokoscreen] ---Begin Pulse unload Module--- 
[vokoscreen] ---End Pulse unload Module--- 
 
[vokoscreen] ---Begin search Alsa capture device--- 
[vokoscreen] alsa_device_sample() in alsadevice.c: open audio device hw:0,0 (Success)
[vokoscreen] alsa_device_sample() in alsadevice.c: Samplerate = 44100
[vokoscreen] Find CaptureCard: "[hw:0,0] HDA Intel MID" 
[vokoscreen] ---End search Alsa capture device--- 

[vokoscreen] ---Begin search PulseAudio Capture Devices--- 
[vokoscreen] ---End search PulseAudio Capture Devices--- 

[vokoscreen] ffmpegcommand : "avconv -f alsa -ac 2 -i hw:0,0 -f x11grab -r 25 -s 1366x768 -i :0.0+0,0 -pix_fmt yuv420p -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec libmp3lame -ar 44100 -qscale 1 -r 25 /tmp/vokoscreen-vokoscreen/vokoscreen-2014-02-12_09-00-29.mkv" 

[vokoscreen] ffmpeg is running and is ready for reading and writing 

******************************************************** 
"[vokoscreen] ffmpeg is crashed on Wednesday, 09:00" 
******************************************************** 

[vokoscreen] ffmpeg is not running 
[vokoscreen][Regional selection] Frame locked: false 

 
[vokoscreen] ---Begin Pulse unload Module--- 
[vokoscreen] ---End Pulse unload Module--- 
 
dolphin@mx1:~
$ 

[Stevo]

I can see that the problem has already been reported to Debian:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=736976

So maybe we need to use an alternate screen recorder.

[dolphin_oracle]

I can see that the problem has already been reported to Debian:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=736976

So maybe we need to use an alternate screen recorder.

well, there is nothing wrong with gtk-recordmydesktop.