I tried to make a screen recording with Spectacle, and I got the following error: kpipewire_record_logging: libvpx codec not found kpipewire_record_logging: No encoder could be created After enabling media-video/ffmpeg[vpx] and rebuilding it, it works. This dependency is not specified upstream; I made a bug report there too.
You won't show us any of your USE flag settings on media-video/ffmpeg, emerge --info at all?
https://invent.kde.org/search?search=codec%20not%20found&nav_source=navbar&project_id=1911&group_id=1568&search_code=true&repository_ref=master so it may depend on consumers of kpipewire, not kpipewire itself, but... I found https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/-/merge_requests/214 and I don't see that UI in my Spectacle when starting a video recording? I want to understand if Spectacle always requires certain codecs or if it supports many.
(In reply to Andreas Sturmlechner from comment #1) > You won't show us any of your USE flag settings on media-video/ffmpeg, > emerge --info at all? Sorry, I was just lazy. 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(In reply to Sam James from comment #2) > https://invent.kde.org/ > search?search=codec%20not%20found&nav_source=navbar&project_id=1911&group_id= > 1568&search_code=true&repository_ref=master > > so it may depend on consumers of kpipewire, not kpipewire itself, but... > > I found https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/-/merge_requests/214 and I > don't see that UI in my Spectacle when starting a video recording? I want to > understand if Spectacle always requires certain codecs or if it supports > many. Those commits do not exist in the master branch anymore; I couldn't display them with git show and I can't find them with git log. The code also no longer exists in master or v24.08.3. Maybe it was reverted or something? But wouldn't you still see that in the commit log? Not sure what's going on there. From poking around Spectacle's source code it looks like it's supposed to fall back to H.264 automatically as decided by kpipewire. Though I'm struggling to understand exactly how they are hooked together. I also have x264 support enabled in FFMpeg and so media-libs/x264 is installed. But it's not falling back onto that for some reason.
(In reply to Avraham Hollander from comment #4) > (In reply to Sam James from comment #2) > > https://invent.kde.org/ > > search?search=codec%20not%20found&nav_source=navbar&project_id=1911&group_id= > > 1568&search_code=true&repository_ref=master > > > > so it may depend on consumers of kpipewire, not kpipewire itself, but... > > > > I found https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/-/merge_requests/214 and I > > don't see that UI in my Spectacle when starting a video recording? I want to > > understand if Spectacle always requires certain codecs or if it supports > > many. > > Those commits do not exist in the master branch anymore; I couldn't display > them with git show and I can't find them with git log. The code also no > longer exists in master or v24.08.3. Maybe it was reverted or something? But > wouldn't you still see that in the commit log? Not sure what's going on > there. Did you accidentally clone with --depth=1 or something like that? I first did `git log --grep=Support`, then saw d081f2fdbd6bdd9d65643b1406a1ffc6883cfef8, then started to look at the history of src/Gui/RecordOptions.qml. It seems to have moved in commit 8e9ed17988fd7b26a7badf54f9fd14d10280a43e Author: Noah Davis <noahadvs@gmail.com> Date: Wed Oct 4 05:01:45 2023 -0400 Add video save options page to settings dialog .. but I *still* don't see that in settings! I feel more confused, not less :(
