I'm very happy about #gnomeshell / #gnome47 shipping hard encoding for its internal screen recorder. With the upcoming #gstreamer 1.24.6 release all currently known bugs are fixed, even though I kinda expect more to come on some multi-GPU setups.
It's about time that we use hw-enc in more places by default and the screen recorder is IMO in a pretty good spot to role things out: on one hand it's used by many people, ensuring we get bug reports, while OTOH its functionality is not crucial.

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@rmader @nekohayo this is the thing Aral was complaining about, right? funny how it happened without any help/input from him whatsoever

@bragefuglseth @nekohayo Err, this is about the screen recorder, not screen reader ;)
But fortunately the later is getting resolved as well, see https://floss.social/@sonny/112773399562477476

@rmader
Oh no, you missed the whole episode where he bitched about the GNOME Shell screen recorder's suboptimal VP8 codec too, not just screen readers: https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/112615135771775130 (this whole thread, up and down)
Summarized as: https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/112616049507191061

And he continued to smear us all for days (I have at least three dozen links / proof of his week-long attacks on GNOME last month), and to block everyone who disagrees / proves him wrong, as pointed out in https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/112644611366841743

@bragefuglseth

@nekohayo @bragefuglseth Oh my :(
Well, I'll take the the positive part: some people seem to really care about what the feature.

@nekohayo @bragefuglseth I'd probably be worth to write a blog post about what needed to fall into place and why it took so long, but for now I'd just like to drop some short notes: making hardware stuff work reliably is a lot of work, especially if you don't control the whole stack.
Thus a big thank you to @verdre for doing most the work in #gnomeshell and all the people at #gstreamer, #pipewire, #wireplumber, #mesa and more involved projects.