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where only the last few seconds are saved.
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where only the last few seconds are saved.
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## Note
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## Note
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This software works with x11 and wayland, but when using AMD/Intel or Wayland then only monitors can be recorded and root access is required. An authentication window will show up automatically if you have a polkit agent running and pkexec installed.\
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This software works with x11 and wayland, but when using AMD/Intel or Wayland then only monitors can be recorded.\
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If you are using a variable refresh rate monitor on nvidia on x11 then choose to record "screen-direct-force". This will allow variable refresh rate to work when recording fullscreen applications. Note that some applications such as mpv will not work in fullscreen mode. A fix is being developed for this.\
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If you are using a variable refresh rate monitor on nvidia on x11 then choose to record "screen-direct-force". This will allow variable refresh rate to work when recording fullscreen applications. Note that some applications such as mpv will not work in fullscreen mode. A fix is being developed for this.\
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GPU Screen Recorder only supports h264 and hevc codecs at the moment which means that webm files are not supported.\
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GPU Screen Recorder only supports h264 and hevc codecs at the moment which means that webm files are not supported.\
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CPU usage is much higher on wayland than on x11 when using nvidia. This is likely a nvidia driver issue. GPU Screen Recorder is still the fastest
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CPU usage is much higher on wayland than on x11 when using nvidia. This is likely a nvidia driver issue. GPU Screen Recorder is still the fastest
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### AMD/Intel/Wayland root permission
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### AMD/Intel/Wayland root permission
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When recording a window under AMD/Intel no special user permission is required, however when recording a monitor (or when using wayland) the program needs root permission (to access KMS).\
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When recording a window under AMD/Intel no special user permission is required, however when recording a monitor (or when using wayland) the program needs root permission (to access KMS).\
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To make this safer, the part that needs root access has been moved to its own executable (to make it as small as possible) and a GUI sudo prompt is shown to run this executable as root. The executable is called "gsr-kms-server".\
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To make this safer, the part that needs root access has been moved to its own executable (to make it as small as possible) and a GUI sudo prompt is shown to run this executable as root. The executable is called "gsr-kms-server".\
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However this doesn't work if you are using the flatpak version of GPU Screen Recorder.
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This password prompt wont show up if you installed GPU Screen Recorder from source or from AUR.
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# Performance
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# Performance
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On a system with a i5 4690k CPU and a GTX 1080 GPU:\
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On a system with a i5 4690k CPU and a GTX 1080 GPU:\
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Preset is set to p5 for now but it should ideally be p6 or p7.
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Preset is set to p5 for now but it should ideally be p6 or p7.
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This change is needed because for certain sizes of a window (or monitor?) such as 971x780 causes encoding to freeze
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This change is needed because for certain sizes of a window (or monitor?) such as 971x780 causes encoding to freeze
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when using h264 codec. This is a new(?) nvidia driver bug.
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when using h264 codec. This is a new(?) nvidia driver bug.
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Maybe dont choose p6 or p7 again? it causes micro stutter for some users (?).
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