Screen area recorder for Ubuntu - only black screen...

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Bo Berglund wrote:

>So I tried to use a ready-made Linux recorder "vokoscreen" which can
>be installed using apt.
>It seems to have the functions I am after but when recording I am
>only getting audio, the screen is totally black.
>I have placed the area selector tool above a Firefox window playing
>the video and adjusted it to the video area.
>
>When I record the selector tool changes by removing all controls
>inside the video area. So it looks like it is doing what it should.
>
>But as I said the resulting mp4 video only contains a black screen,
>while audio is OK.

I had the same issue, except that my video was green instead of
black. Try turning off hardware acceleration in Firefox. That solved
it for me.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration

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Little Girl

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