Folks, just a quick apology, I was wrong: I just heard that GNOME’s screen recorder is apparently only meant to be used to create low-quality recordings to be added to bug reports.

(Apologies for assuming it was a professional-quality tool. The screenshots it takes don’t look bad so I just went and assumed the screencasts would be usable also. My bad.)

So please don’t use it to create any actual screencasts or anything. (You can use OBS if you need a real screen recording tool.)

#gnome #linux

As a user, I remember the era between 2015 and 2020 where GNOME Shell's video screen recorder was *literally unusable* because the VP9 encoder could never keep up and would lock up your computer by filling up the RAM within a minute. I'm not making things up; this commit proves it: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/commit/c61685e617

So, *very much* a technical limitation.

I would have appreciated if you had simply asked politely to begin with, & assumed good faith, rather than immediately publicly smearing #GNOME

Revert "recorder: Switch to vp9" (c61685e6) · Commits · GNOME / gnome-shell · GitLab

This reverts commit d183f13456991d12ea57ad14ba38a1f7407d0037. Switching to the vp9 encoder seemed like a good idea at the time but unfortunately it also has the major drawback, that it leaks a serious...

^GitLab

So, thanks to all the replies, I’ll be redoing a bunch of my work tomorrow using OBS.

So, in short: if you want to record screencasts and you care about the quality of your work: DO NOT USE THE BUILT-IN GNOME SCREEN RECORDER. It outputs low quality videos and you cannot change the qualiy.

Use OBS instead.

*le sigh*

G’night!

#gnome #screenRecorder #screenRecording #warning #OBS #FOSS #Linux #fedora #education #design #communication #presentations #video #editing #nle #videoEditing

FFS, GNOME! Just wasted a day of editing video because the built-in screen recorder records screencasts at such a low quality that I ended up with keyframe artefacts / ghosting in my captures.

Bloody hell…

And is there any way to set the quality? Is there ever!

[Edit] Use OBS. (Thanks everyone in the replies.)

(Don’t use GNOME’s built-in screen recorder if you’re posting HD+ videos.)

https://vimeo.com/957970626

#gnome #video #screenRecorder #quality #linux #foss

The quality of the screen capture in GNOME’s screen recorder

Just wasted a day of editing thanks to this. See the ghosting in the latter part of the video and the low quality in general.

^Vimeo

Not sure whether it was Streamyard or Firefox or my OS to blame but it seems the transitions came out horribly choppy in the screen sharing recording of my talk from Groningen on Tuesday so here we are…

*le sigh*

(I’ll try to have the transitions I recorded locally edited in and the video up sometime today.)

#SmallWeb #streamyard #firefox #screenRecording #talk #groningen #editing #nle #kdenlive #linux #gnome

Did anyone else switch from #GNOME to #KDE when #Plasma6 dropped?

#Linux

I did a pog blost...I mean a blog post! Sorry, it's been awhile 😉

https://andyholmes.ca/posts/gnome-46-and-beyond/

#GNOME #GOA #STF #GNOMEOnlineAccounts

>> This extension is still very early software and is NOT ready for production use. It is still under active development.

Okay, where can I download it for use in production?

#GNOME #Linux #tiling

https://gitlab.gnome.org/heikkiket/window-mosaic-mode

Heikki Ketoharju / Window Mosaic Mode · GitLab

Welcome to GNOME GitLab

^GitLab

I really used to love #GNOME #Boxes. But now it seems to be completely unmaintained and completely broken.

#Linux #OpenSource

Showtime, the video player I'm developing for #GNOME has entered Incubator and is available on the GNOME Nightly repo for testing

I'm hoping for it to replace Totem (Videos) in GNOME 48 and I will publish it on Flathub soon.

Setting up GNOME Nightly: https://nightly.gnome.org/

The repository for the app: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/showtime

Laptop, but with #AR glass instead of a screen.

There is very little details about their "Space OS". Their website cryptically says "SpaceOS is built for the modern Web, so anything you do on the Web, you can now do - in space."

Most probably a customized #Android. But call me wishful thinking, the Window decorated suspiciously similarly to #GNOME.

https://www.inverse.com/tech/spacetop-g1-laptop-ar-glasses-ceo-interview

I was sad to find a surprising lack of visual scripting apps for Linux. Apple's Shortcuts app is very powerful and can be incredibly useful. It's not like we don't have the technical ability to make something similar.

So I started working on one myself

#Linux #GNOME

I've been on #X11 for past 28+ years, but used different WMs over time: #twm, #fvwm95, #e16, #gnome, #compiz, #xmonad and #awesomewm.

I'm migrating to #Wayland and need a wm which would ease the move. Requirements are: tiling, no window decorations, keyboard driven and config driven.

I rediscovered #i3 == #sway which check all my boxes and use common config. After some tweaking, I got it working well with my keybindings and usage patterns.

https://i3wm.org/ & https://swaywm.org/

It's not long until the 1st of June, so why not pick up the guitar and learn some catchy tunes for the summer? I've just published version 7.0 of Fretboard, which brings more accurate chord name prediction, note names on hover for the neck top toggles, and a couple of fixes for various small issues encountered since last release. It should be on Flathub very soon!

https://apps.gnome.org/Fretboard

#Fretboard #GNOME #Flathub #GNOMEApps #GNOMECircle #Guitar