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Bug 927245 - gnome-base/gnome-shell needs mutter[screencast] for recording the screen
Summary: gnome-base/gnome-shell needs mutter[screencast] for recording the screen
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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Reported: 2024-03-18 13:41 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified: 2024-03-18 13:41 UTC (History)
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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2024-03-18 13:41:37 UTC 
Hello,

I was this morning trying to record a video of my screen with the built-in gnome-shell tool and I noticed that it was silently dying after two seconds. 

Finally, this was caused by me having mutter built without screencast support. 

I wonder about how we could make a "default" Gnome installation to work out of the box, either by:
- RDEPENDing on mutter[screencast] unconditionally or with a screencast USE flag
- Adding mutter[screencast] to the (already big) optfeature line.

Additionally, maybe we could consider default enabling "screencast" on gnome profiles and, by the way (as I noticed while I was checking our latest gnome-shell ebuild), "pipewire" too, as it seems to be more and more used in the tree.

Thanks