Gregory's ServerI'm very happy about #gnomeshell / #gnome47 shipping HW encoding for its internal screen recorder. With the upcoming #gstreamer 1.24.6 release all currently known bugs are fixed, even though I kinda expect more to come on some multi-GPU setups.
It's about time that we use hw-enc in more places by default and the screen recorder is IMO in a pretty good spot to role things out: on one hand it's used by many people, ensuring we get bug reports, while OTOH its functionality is not crucial.
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@rmader if going for semi recent hardware then why not go for h265 or would that be too incompatible @zyx Compatibility. H265 doesn't work on the web, HW-decoding is supported on less devices etc. VP9 and AV1 are options I'm looking forward to - H265 is not worth it, IMO.  @rmader On a positive note, though, I'm stoked for this! Modern hardware enablement is great. @bragefuglseth @nekohayo Err, this is about the screen recorder, not screen reader ;) @rmader Oh, you don’t know about his screen recorder rant? It’s separate from the screen reader ragebait. See this discussion (start from the top) https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/112615135771775130 @rmader I’d argue that this is a major part of why people were fed up with him when he started smearing the Fedora community right afterwards. @bragefuglseth Oh, wasn't aware about that, thanks for letting me know! |
If things are broken for some users they have lots of alternatives to switch to.
In #gnome47 we'll limit things to H264 on (semi-recent) Intel and AMD (those using VA-API). In the future we'll hopefully be able to extend things to AV1, maybe VP9, and more platforms. Depending on how things develop that'll be V4L2 or Vulkan.