In YT videos are Fuzzy

[Jānis Kangarooo]

Binary package hint: recordmydesktop

Videos recoded with this programm sometimes hasnt correct timing when vieving in vlc or shows 00:00 timing
and in YT videos are fuzzy.
removed and installed programm again and deleted settings file. nothing changed here are example links and souce files.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKPPSVj5jco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14U3N7rC9Q0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA8b8DStsTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC7cdjmuCV8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XTq3gO9eaM
source files added. out has corect timing. others show too much or 00:00
thats maybe becouse i tryd to change settings to get for YT understandable compresion.

[Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo)]

this out-4 is with removed and deleted settings file .gtk-recordmydesktop and installed again gtk-recordmydesktop made

[Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo)]

tryd ffmpeg -i out-4.ogv outout.avi and it made video look like in yt it looks- fuzzy but exacly the same http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKPPSVj5jco
but all previous files as u can see then can be played in vlc normaly.

[Metalx (metalx1000)]

I just upgraded and I'm experiencing the same thing. I use GTK-RecordmyDesktop pretty much every day for screen casts. The video captured looks fine in the original OGV, but if you try and convert it is gets all messed up. I've tried uploading to YouTube, converting to a few different formats with both ffmpeg and mencoder. The video also looks like that when I try and import the ogv into Kdenlive. Seems anything I do ruins the video.

[Metalx (metalx1000)]

I just try to recompress a 3 second video using ffmpeg2theora.
It still garbles the video and I get this output:

$ ffmpeg2theora tmpvid.ogv -o tmpvid2.ogv
Input #0, ogg, from 'tmpvid.ogv':
  Duration: 00:00:03.53, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 385 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Invalid Codec type -1
    Stream #0.1: Video: theora, yuv420p, 800x592, PAR 1:1 DAR 50:37, 15 tbr, 15 tbn, 15 tbc
    Stream #0.2: Audio: vorbis, 22050 Hz, mono, s16, 89 kb/s
  Resize: 800x592
      0:00:00.33 audio: 0kbps video: 100kbps, time elapsed: 00:00:00 no frame available
no frame available
no frame available
no frame available
no frame available
no frame available
no frame available
      0:00:01.86 audio: 32kbps video: 36kbps, time remaining: 00:00:01 no frame available
no frame available
no frame available
no frame available
no frame available
no frame available
no frame available
no frame available
no frame available
no frame available
      0:00:03.16 audio: 31kbps video: 37kbps, time elapsed: 00:00:02

[Metalx (metalx1000)]

This is still a problem, but thanks to Jordan over at http://www.thisweekinlinux.com/ I now have a work around.

mencoder input.ogv -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts pass=1 -o output.avi

This will give me working video that I can upload to YouTube or convert convert to another format using ffmpeg.

[Martin Nordholts (enselic)]

Maybe related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/recordmydesktop/+bug/1589853 ? I imagine transcoding can be buggy if keyframes are not correctly marked.