Bug 510984

Summary:	Spectacle freezes after recording full-screen video
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	Dan Dascalescu <ddascalescu+kde>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Noah Davis <noahadvs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.3.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	screenshot

Description Dan Dascalescu 2025-10-23 23:26:26 UTC

Created attachment 186058 [details]
screenshot

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Click Recording -> Full Screen
2. Click to select the current screen (see Bug 510983)
3. Record a 2-minute office like screencast (e.g. https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169029#c1)

OBSERVED RESULT
Spectacle freezes

EXPECTED RESULT
There seems to be enough CPU and GPU power to encode live?

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Kubuntu 25.04
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.8.3
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Graphics Processor 1: Mesa Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics
Graphics Processor 2: zink Vulkan 1.4

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-10-24 17:32:32 UTC

I can't reproduce this  in Plasma 6.5 on weaker graphical hardware (Radeon 780M) with a 2880x1800 screen at 175% scale. I went for five minutes and it worked out fine.

That said, if we can do live encoding of the video so any arbitrary length isn't a problem, that would be ideal.