Debian Bug report logs - #549262
recordmydesktop: undocumented, excessive restrictions on recorded area geometry

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From: Piotr Engelking <inkerman42@gmail.com>

To: Debian BTS <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: recordmydesktop: undocumented, excessive restrictions on recorded area geometry

Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 23:55:22 +0200

Package: recordmydesktop
Version: 0.3.8.1-2.0.0.1
Severity: normal

RecordMyDesktop enforces both coordinates of the offset of the recorded area
to be divisible by 2, and of its size to be divisible by 16. These
restrictions are not documented. According to comments in the code, they
come from MIT-SHM constraints. (Are these, in turn, documented anywhere?
There is no mention of them in the XShm* man pages.)

It would be more user friendly if the alignment pixels were discarded before
passing the data to the video encoder.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages recordmydesktop depends on:
ii  libasound2             1.0.21a-1         shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                  2.9-25            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libice6                2:1.0.5-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libogg0                1.1.4~dfsg-1      Ogg bitstream library
ii  libsm6                 2:1.1.1-1         X11 Session Management library
ii  libtheora0             1.0-2.1           The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii  libvorbis0a            1.2.0.dfsg-6      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2          1.2.0.dfsg-6      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3         1.2.0.dfsg-6      The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.2-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxdamage1            1:1.1.1-4         X11 damaged region extension libra
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3             1:4.0.3-2         X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

recordmydesktop recommends no packages.

recordmydesktop suggests no packages.

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