#549262 recordmydesktop: undocumented, excessive restrictions on recorded area geometry

Package:
recordmydesktop
Source:
recordmydesktop
Description:
Captures audio-video data of a Linux desktop session
Submitter:
Piotr Engelking
Date:
2010-08-20 14:06:07 UTC
Severity:
normal
#549262#5
Date:
2009-10-01 21:55:22 UTC
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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.