GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 792858
shell-recorder cursor updates are fixed at 100ms
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:12:48 UTC
Currently the shell recorder updates the mouse cursor coordinates every 100ms: gnome-shell/src/shell-recorder.c:132: /* The time (in milliseconds) between querying the server for the cursor * position. */ #define UPDATE_POINTER_TIME 100 While the API allows to set a capture frame rate for the video this setting does not seem to be able to be changed. This leads so unexpected looking results to the user when they do a capture session. They may end up with 60 fps video but with 10 fps mouse coordinate updates. This may not be desired for some videos which would be more pleasant to watch if the cursor coordinates were updated more frequently. So an additional option to control the cursor update interval would be very nice. OR updating the coordinates for each frame that is being captured - but I guess there was an initial reason to update them at a lower rate than the recording rate..
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