On 01/17/2012 04:44 PM, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:54:16 +0100 Swapnil Bhartiya<swapnil.bhartiya@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/17/2012 04:48 AM, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:47:40 +0100 Swapnil Bhartiya<swapnil.bhartiya@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am a strange position. I have couple of PC which I am running openSUSE and Ubuntu. I create screen casts for my stories and under openSUSE there is a strange situation. When I run recordmydesktop under opneSUSE 12.1 on my Dell xps 1330 it works great. But when I try to run it on my main PC which has Nvidia card it doesn't work. It hangs. I tried running it on a fresh install on the same PC without nvidia drivers still it did not run. It runs well under Ubuntu.
What can be the cause and what is the solution?
Swapnil
Hi Swapnil,
Are you running openSUSE on one of the 'couple of PCs' and Ubuntu on the other? Or are you running openSUSE *and* Ubuntu on each?
All machines are dual boot -- running openSUSE 12.1 *and* Ubuntu 11.10.
Also, you're saying 'recordmydesktop' works great under openSUSE 12.1 on the Dell, but not on your 'main PC' with or without the proprietary nVidia drivers installed.
The point you're making I guess is 'recordmydesktop' appears to run fine under 12.1, as you've confirmed on the Dell system, but there is something different happening on your 'main PC' and this is what you'd like help troubleshooting.
Yes. I in fact did a fresh install last night (again) on the main PC (Intel i5, Nvidia GTX 470) to see if there are no proprietary drivers it may work; but it did not. I have dual monitor set-up for main PC but I also disabled the second monitor. Since recordmydesktop is not in repos I have to download it manually from openSUSE site -- first I install recordmydesktop and then gtk-recordmydesktop (I did the same for my Dell PC). Is this method correct.
Recordmydesktop starts and after selecting the area to record and hitting the record button it becomes responsiven. When I hit the stop recording button. It just hangs. So I have to log out by Ctrl+Alt+Delete which also kills all unsaved work.
Assuming you're describing 'recordmydesktop' and not the entire PC when you say "it hangs" I would suggest opening a terminal on your 'main PC' and, as a normal user try launching 'recordmydesktop' from the commandline. Look for any error messages to post back here and we'll take a look.
In a way whole PC hangs as the frame of rmd (recordmydesktop) which means I can't trigger the activities or launcher or any app so the whole PC is non-responsive.
Here is terminal output:
muktware@linux-n6c9:~> recordmydesktop Initial recording window is set to: X:0 Y:0 Width:1920 Height:1080 Adjusted recording window is set to: X:0 Y:4 Width:1920 Height:1072 Your window manager appears to be Mutter
Detected compositing window manager. Reverting to full screen capture at every frame. To disable this check run with --no-wm-check (though that is not advised, since it will probably produce faulty results).
Initializing... Buffer size adjusted to 4096 from 4096 frames. Opened PCM device hw:0,0 Playback frequency 22050Hz is not available... Using 44100Hz instead. Recording on device hw:0,0 is set to: 2 channels at 44100Hz Capturing! An error occured while reading sound data: Input/output error ^C *********************************************
Cached 3 MB, from 1688 MB that were received. Average cache compression ratio: 99.8 %
********************************************* Saved 215 frames in a total of 215 requests Shutting down..An error occured while reading sound data: Input/output error
**
I tried disabling audio from the sound settings as well.
Also here I have uploaded a video of the problem,
Thanks.
Swapnil
I don't know exactly what's going on here, but this might be a place to start:
- - - - - 8< - - - - - An error occured while reading sound data: Input/output error ^C *********************************************
Cached 3 MB, from 1688 MB that were received. Average cache compression ratio: 99.8 % - - - - - 8< - - - - -
It looks like rmd (recordmydesktop) is loading and running properly up until you click 'record'. Here it reports caching 3 MB out of ~ 1.6 GB received. I think your settings are off somewhere causing bandwidth to choke on the data. At least that's my first impression.
You didn't say if rmd runs okay on the same system under Ubuntu. If it does, I'd look for differences in the rmd config&/or default recording settings under each for clues.
Yes. RMD runs fine on the same machine under Ubuntu. I will appreciate your help as I want to use openSUSE full time :-) Swapnil
Carl
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