#994072 simplescreenrecorder: Please ask upstream to support VP9 and Opus

Package:
simplescreenrecorder
Source:
simplescreenrecorder
Description:
Feature-rich screen recorder for X11 and OpenGL
Submitter:
mooff
Date:
2023-02-17 07:06:03 UTC
Severity:
important
#994072#5
Date:
2021-09-11 05:03:44 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

VP9 and Opus are modern codecs which greatly improve the quality/size
ratio we can get with free tools.

Please ask upstream if they have any plans to support VP9 and Opus, or
similar public codecs, and include them post-haste in Debian Bullseye
and Bookworm :-)

Yours,
mooff
#994072#10
Date:
2021-09-11 16:03:19 UTC
From:
To:
[mooff]

Both are nice codecs, I agree. :)

May I ask why you do not ask upstream about this yourself?  I suspect
you have more information to provide if upstream ask followup questions.
I doubt the Debian maintainers have any more impact than yourself, and
we are notoriaously short on manpower, so it might take a while until
someone get around to passing this on to upstream.

The link to upstream is available from
<URL: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/simplescreenrecorder >.
#994072#15
Date:
2023-02-17 07:02:48 UTC
From:
To:
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/MaartenBaert/ssr/issues/634

As far as I can tell, the issue is already reported upstream, and some
ffmpeg instructions are provided in this ticket.