Comment 42 for bug 463019

elad: Thats not high enough. You're asking theora to encode your screen with nearly perfect quality. Uncompressed 4:2:0 1024x768x15fps is 141mbit/sec. It's going to have to drop some frames to encode that into 700kbit/sec over a short time window with the requested near-perfect quality.

I explained very specifically what recordmydesktop is doing wrong. Does this package not have a maintainer?

In any case, I'll attach a patch which gives sane behaviour.