Bug 510984 - Spectacle freezes after recording full-screen video
Summary: Spectacle freezes after recording full-screen video
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: Spectacle
Classification: Applications
Component: General (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.3.4
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Noah Davis
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Reported: 2025-10-23 23:26 UTC by Dan Dascalescu
Modified: 2025-10-24 17:32 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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