recordmydesktop drops frames over time

[Andrew Berry]

Binary package hint: recordmydesktop

When recording the screen with recordmydesktop, it inconsistently drops frames, leading to a recording that is randomly out of sync with any other recordings (such as a video camera). At first I thought it was related to CPU use, but even with an idle system it lost nearly 30 seconds of frames over an hour. To test, I used the following

recordmydesktop --no-sound & sleep 3600s && killall recordmydesktop -SIGTERM;

Which produced a file about 59:30 long (according to Totem).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: recordmydesktop 0.3.8.1+svn602-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 21 11:55:39 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: recordmydesktop

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Xwarman (xwarman)]

I testet with ubuntu 11.10 x64 and had that problem too. Video runs much faster then sound was been recorded.