Mouse cursor seems corrupted

Bug #654845 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄
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FFmpeg
Incomplete
Unknown
Kazam Screencaster
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

For some reason videos i record have a 'chunky' mouse cursor. There's a kind large black border around it. It happens with the standard mouse cursor and the circular spinny things too, as well as the hand-grabby one (technical terms)..

See screenshot. Mouse on right is the one I am using, the one on the left (inside the totem window [but not inside the totem window which is inside the totem window]) is the one that was recorded.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :
description: updated
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Andrew (and471) wrote :

Due to this and the other bug where you report large areas of video being corrupted, could this have something to do with your machine Alan? Could you give details such as version of ubuntu, graphics drivers, window manager etc.?

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :

It's a pretty much base install of 10.10 with only a few extra packages. Its a current model 13" MacBook pro with a 2ghz cpu & an nvidia gfx card using the binary nvidia driver.

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Andrew (and471) wrote :

Are you using compiz? If not, is metacity compositing enabled?

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :

Yes, compiz is enabled.

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Marco Hunsicker (ubuntu-triemax) wrote :

This is a know ffmpeg issue.

https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue2056

The workaround is to change to a mouse cursor theme without transparency

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9731073

(See post #51)

Andrew (and471)
Changed in kazam:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in ffmpeg:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in ffmpeg:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Guilherme Salazar (gmesalazar) wrote :

I don't know whether someone found a solution, but here a possibility.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786095

Follow up to the step 5.

Regards,
Guilherme Salazar.

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llogan (loul) wrote :

This has been addressed upstream in FFmpeg some time ago:

Make x11grab cursor drawing suck less
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=8ce803db51a28eb662b6271b2b223e0312bdb3d2

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David Klasinc (bigwhale) wrote :

I'll close this bug, because it seems it was fixed in the upstream and Kazam moved away from ffmpeg, so it is not relevant anymore.

Changed in kazam:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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