Sound capturing thread hangs sometimes

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

Binary package hint: gtk-recordmydesktop

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release: 8.04

gtk-recordmydesktop:
  Installed: 0.3.6-1
  Candidate: 0.3.6-1

After recording a session with gtk-recordMyDesktop, a dialog pops up claiming that encoding is in process and that closing the window or canceling will discard the record of the session. The dialog includes a progress bar which never advances. My current configuration for gtk-recordMyDesktop is to encode on the fly, and the session *is* recorded to an ogg file in my home directory, but gtk-recordMyDesktop doesn't seem to realize this and instead scares me by acting broken and claiming it is going to destroy my data.

My gtk-recordmydata configuration file (written automatically, I haven't edited it) is attached.

[Nick Sarten (gen-battle)]

I'm getting this bug with gtk-recordmydesktop in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic. The program gets to the encoding step of the process and then hangs. Given that it works fine on my 9.04 machine, i think the problem may be related to this bug on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2888673&group_id=172357&atid=861428

It basically says that recordmydesktop is not compatible with "the new libtheora", which could have been added to 9.10.

[Donald (donsmouse)]

i am also getting the same thing,im using it on ubuntu 9.10 64 bit,the sound device is High Definition 8-channel audio

    * ALC 888S chipset

This is an hp pavilion m9500f with 8 gigs of ram

[Predrag (martincom)]

Its same in Ubuntu 10.04 :(

[Sergiu BADAN (sergiu-badan)]

I get absolutely the same result on ubuntu 10.10.
After stopping recording, recordmydesktop process seems to hang:
sb@linux:~$ sudo strace -p 13962
Process 13962 attached - interrupt to quit
futex(0xb27b4bd8, FUTEX_WAIT, 13964, NULL) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGTERM (Terminated) @ 0 (0) ---
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
futex(0xb27b4bd8, FUTEX_WAIT, 13964, NULL) = 0
write(2, "Shutting down.", 14) = 14
write(2, ".", 1) = 1
futex(0xb17b2bd8, FUTEX_WAIT, 13966, NULL

Only killall -9 recordmydesktop solves that. It's rather recordmydesktop issue than gtk-recordmydesktop.

It was working some weeks ago.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[joshyg6 (josheg)]

 Did this get solved ever? Still happening at times..

[Daryl Tucker (daryltucker)]

I still experience this every time I use it (14.04).

Any suggestions? Any alternatives?

[David Jameson (nospam19)]

It's a bug in rmd_capture_sound.c. Just add "&& (pdata->running)" to the while loops on lines 111 and 146 of the latest code (0.3.8.1)

[Martin Nordholts (enselic)]

If this is caused by the libtheora problem mentioned in comment #2, the problem should be fixed in the recently uploaded package version 0.4.0-0ubuntu1.

But I suspect the correct fix is what @nospam19 wrote in comment #9, in which case I will fix it in some later upstream release.