it-is-wednesday/cute-sway-recorder

Need flag `--force-yuv` or else all recorded videos not playable

kohane27 opened this issue · 3 comments

kohane27 commented

Hello @it-is-wednesday. Hope you're doing well. Thank you for creating this graphical wrapper. It makes using wf-recorder a lot easier.

Description

I had the exact same issue mentioned in #152. All the videos recorded with cute-sway-recorder aren't playable when shared on uploaded. They are playable locally with mpv.

Solution

The solution is adding the flag --force-yuv:

-t, --force-yuv
Use the -t or --force-yuv option to force conversion of the data to yuv format, before sending it to the gpu.

Problem

Given cute-sway-recorder uses wf-recorder under the hood, it's solvable by adding the flag --force-yuv. But there's no easy way to add flags. Currently, I have to modify the src code:

  1. cd ~/.local/pipx/venvs/cute-sway-recorder/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cute_sway_recorder/main.py

  2. add --force-yuv to params like below:

params = ["wf-recorder", "-f", file_dst, "--force-yuv"]

Suggestion

Add an input box under Record audio so that users can pass flags.

Thank you!

it-is-wednesday commented

Oh shit thanks for the detailed issue! I really appreciate the effort <3

Adding such a box is a great solution, I'll definitely add it when I get back on my Linux machine. If you would like to submit a PR yourself I'd obviously greatly appreciate that;) But no rush at all

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kohane27 commented

Update: the following solution doesn't work.

A better approach than modifying src code is editing cute-sway-recorder.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=cute-sway-recorder
Exec=env --force-yuv /home/username/.local/bin/cute-sway-recorder
it-is-wednesday commented

Woah, wait, how does that work? I didn't know you can just append random flags to env. Can you please explain? I'm curious how it works and can't find anything online and in env's manual!