MadmanRB wrote:Well simplescreen recorder seems not to function for some reason, it always coughs up errors no matter what I do.
I set the container, I name the file and have all my settings correctly made yet it coughs up an error:
[Muxer::FindCodec] Error: Can't find codec!
[PageRecord::StartOutput] Error: Something went wrong during initialization.
Works perfectly fine here. Just started it for the first time, selected audio source (monitor of internal audio analog stereo), selected a 1920x1150 rectangle, and the "HighQualityIntermediate" video profile using libx264 with 30 fps.
Recorded normally, paused and then saved it, no issues at all, audio sounds just fine and video quality is good.
As you don't provide any information what settings you have chosen, can't say much more, but what I can say - you definitely did not choose them correctly.
It might also be an idea to simply run it from a terminal and paste the complete output here, as it's pretty verbose and logs everything. Sample log (sadly in german, but it's not effected by LC_ALL=C it seems)
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┌─[doktor5000@Mageia5]─[21:49:23]─[~]
└──╼ simplescreenrecorder
==================== SSR gestartet ====================
SimpleScreenRecorder 0.3.3
Compiled with GCC 4.9.2
Qt: header 4.8.6, lib 4.8.6
libavformat: header 56.4.101, lib 56.4.101
libavcodec: header 56.1.100, lib 56.1.100
libavutil: header 54.7.100, lib 54.7.100
libswscale: header 3.0.100, lib 3.0.100
[CPUFeatures::Detect] CPU Merkmale: mmx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2
[ALSAInput::GetSourceList] Generiere Quell-Liste...
[ALSAInput::GetSourceList] Karte gefunden: [hw:0] HDA Intel PCH
[ALSAInput::GetSourceList] Gerät gefunden: [hw:0,0] HDA Intel PCH: ALC1150 Analog
[ALSAInput::GetSourceList] Gerät gefunden: [hw:0,2] HDA Intel PCH: ALC1150 Alt Analog
[ALSAInput::GetSourceList] Karte gefunden: [hw:1] HDA NVidia
[PulseAudioInput::GetSourceList] Generiere Quell-Liste...
[SourceNamesCallback] Quelle gefunden: [alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo-extra1.monitor] Monitor of HDA NVidia Digital Stereo (HDMI)
[SourceNamesCallback] Quelle gefunden: [alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor] Monitor of Internes Audio Analog Stereo
[SourceNamesCallback] Quelle gefunden: [alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo] Internes Audio Analog Stereo
[PulseAudioInput::GetSourceList] Generiere Quell-Liste...
[SourceNamesCallback] Quelle gefunden: [alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo-extra1.monitor] Monitor of HDA NVidia Digital Stereo (HDMI)
[SourceNamesCallback] Quelle gefunden: [alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor] Monitor of Internes Audio Analog Stereo
[SourceNamesCallback] Quelle gefunden: [alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo] Internes Audio Analog Stereo
[PageRecord::StartPage] Start-Seite...
[PageRecord::StartPage] Seite gestartet.
[PageRecord::StartOutput] Ausgabe wird gestoppt...
[Muxer::Init] Verwende Format matroska (Matroska).
[Muxer::AddStream] Verwende Codec libx264 (libx264 H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10).
[VideoEncoder::PrepareStream] Verwende Pixel-Format yuv420
[libx264 @ 0x1cbdc00] using SAR=1/1
[libx264 @ 0x1cbdc00] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX AVX2 FMA3 LZCNT BMI2
[libx264 @ 0x1cbdc00] profile High, level 4.2
[libx264 @ 0x1cbdc00] 264 - core 142 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2014 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=1 ref=1 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x3 me=dia subme=1 psy=1 psy_rd=1,00:0,00 mixed_ref=0 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=0 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=0 threads=8 lookahead_threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=0 weightp=0 keyint=1 keyint_min=1 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc=crf mbtree=0 crf=15,0 qcomp=0,60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 ip_ratio=1,40 aq=1:1,00
[BaseEncoder::EncoderThread] Starte Kodierungs-Prozess.
[Muxer::AddStream] Verwende Codec pcm_s16le (PCM signed 16-bit little-endian).
[AudioEncoder::PrepareStream] Verwende Sample-Format s16i
[BaseEncoder::EncoderThread] Starte Kodierungs-Prozess.
[Muxer::MuxerThread] Muxer-Prozess gestartet.
[PageRecord::StartOutput] Ausgabe gestartet.
[Synchronizer::SynchronizerThread] Synchronisierungs-Prozess gestartet.
[PageRecord::StartInput] Eingabe wird gestartet...
[X11Input::Init] Verwende X11 geteilten Speicher.
[X11Input::InputThread] Eingabe-Prozess gestartet.
[PageRecord::StartInput] Eingabe gestartet.
[PulseAudioInput::InputThread] Eingabe-Prozess gestartet.
[FastResampler::Resample] Resample Rate ist 1.0000 (war 0.0000).
[PageRecord::StopOutput] Ausgabe wird angehalten...
[Synchronizer::~Synchronizer] Stoppe Synchronisierungs-Prozess...
[Synchronizer::SynchronizerThread] Synchronisierungs-Prozess angehalten.
[Muxer::Finish] Finalisiere Kodierer...
[BaseEncoder::EncoderThread] Kodierer wird geleert...
[BaseEncoder::EncoderThread] Kodierungs-Prozess angehalten.
[BaseEncoder::EncoderThread] Kodierungs-Prozess angehalten.
[Muxer::MuxerThread] Muxer-Prozess angehalten.
[Muxer::~Muxer] Kodierer werden gestoppt...
[Muxer::~Muxer] Warte darauf, dass der Muxer-Prozess angehalten wird...
[BaseEncoder::~BaseEncoder] Stoppe Kodierungs-Prozess...
[libx264 @ 0x1cbdc00] frame I:998 Avg QP:12,67 size:176384
[libx264 @ 0x1cbdc00] mb I I16..4: 65,1% 8,0% 26,9%
[libx264 @ 0x1cbdc00] 8x8 transform intra:8,0%
[libx264 @ 0x1cbdc00] coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 36,4% 15,7% 11,0%
[libx264 @ 0x1cbdc00] i16 v,h,dc,p: 56% 41% 3% 1%
[libx264 @ 0x1cbdc00] i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 19% 27% 22% 7% 5% 4% 5% 4% 8%
[libx264 @ 0x1cbdc00] i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 30% 36% 11% 4% 4% 3% 4% 3% 5%
[libx264 @ 0x1cbdc00] i8c dc,h,v,p: 79% 12% 7% 1%
[libx264 @ 0x1cbdc00] kb/s:42332,12
[BaseEncoder::~BaseEncoder] Stoppe Kodierungs-Prozess...
[PageRecord::StopOutput] Ausgabe angehalten.
[PageRecord::StopInput] Eingabe wird angehalten...
[X11Input::~X11Input] Stoppe Eingabe Prozess...
[X11Input::InputThread] Eingabe-Prozess angehalten.
[PulseAudioInput::~PulseAudioInput] Stopping input thread ...
[PulseAudioInput::InputThread] Eingabe-Prozess angehalten.
[PageRecord::StopInput] Eingabe angehalten.
[PageRecord::StopPage] Seite wird angehalten...
[PageRecord::StopPage] Seite gestoppt.
==================== SSR angehalten ====================
MadmanRB wrote:Recordmydesktop is the worst, I have not seen that work since 2008. it hates pulse and even if I install jack for audio it jitters in its efforts to record audio.
Same here, you don't provide much details. What frontend do you use, the GTK or the Qt one or with no frontend at all? What did you select as audio device?
Short search turns up
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Re ... PulseAudio which also has a section about troubleshooting recordmydesktop audio issues
and also offers the alternative options for jack.
After choosing the pulse device, sound is recorded although it is pretty low volume ...