Comment 50 for bug 63996

My experience reflected a misunderstanding rather than a bug.

I was getting these hangs when saving the video but when I read people saying about disabling Compiz (Visual Effects -> None) I thought that maybe we were thinking the wrong way.

You must configure istanbul whether you're using Compiz or not. Compiz is a 3D and "normal" Gnome isn't so I think that the video engine should switch accordingly.

Checking "Record 3D" while in my Compiz environment made the software work like a charm (and that's why it worked with this option unchecked + no compiz). So if compiz, "Record 3D" checked, not, unchecked.

The "Record Sound" issue has as responsible the great "pulse audio" because istanbul (and other apps) tries to access the sound device directly (/dev/..) in order of pulse audio. I think that this may be corrected by configuring environment variables or somenthing, havent tested.

Hope this helps somebody!

Regards from Brazil