| Summary: | spectacle displays a misleading error message when it fails to record video | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] Spectacle | Reporter: | skierpage <info> |
| Component: | General | Assignee: | Noah Davis <noahadvs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | filip.kendes1, kde |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 6.4.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Fedora RPMs | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 507486 *** |
SUMMARY Spectacle is failing to record WebM/VP9 video for me. The issue I'm reporting is its "Temporary file URL must be an existing local file" error message is unrelated to my apparent actual library problem. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Run Spectacle from the command line. 2. Choose any of the New Recording options and start recording. 3. As Spectacle says, click the pulsing red circlular system tray icon to stop recording. OBSERVED RESULT An error dialog appears containing: Failed to export video: Temporary file URL must be an existing local file Spectacle's terminal output ends with the following, the first line is red: [libvpx-vp9 @ 0x7f7464119740] Failed to initialize encoder: ABI version mismatch kpipewire_record_logging: Could not open codec Invalid argument kpipewire_record_logging: No encoder could be created Failed to export video: Temporary file URL must be an existing local file EXPECTED RESULT I assume I have a library problem with "WebM/VP9" format, as ffmpeg command line also fails with a similar "Failed to initialize encoder: ABI version error. I'll troubleshoot this (it may be a Fedora packaging bug and bug 485733 seems relevant). But regardless Spectacle should report the actual underlying error or "video encoder issue", instead of misleading users about temporary/local/network files. The latter is not the problem here, nor was it the problem with bug 485733. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 41 KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0 Qt Version: 6.8.3 Kernel Version: 6.15.9-101.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz Memory: 8 GiB of RAM (7.6 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: Intel® HD Graphics 520 Manufacturer: LENOVO Product Name: 20FN002JUS System Version: ThinkPad T460 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I apparently made a successful Spectacle screen recording in .webm format in December 2024, saved to $HOME/Screencasts/Screencast_20241224_191731.webm , which is still the configured location for Spectacle videos. If I change the video file format in Configure Spectacle > Video Saving from WebM/VP9 to Animated WebP (better than GIF) or MP4/H.264, then screen recording works fine.