Fail to record

[iTrooz]

Affected version

• io.github.seadve.Kooha 2.3.0

• Flatpak: false

• Experimental Features: []

• Language: en_US.UTF-8, en_US, en.UTF-8, en, C

• CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1365U

• GPU: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 04)

• Distribution: Arch Linux

• Desktop Session: plasma

• Display Server: wayland

• GTK 4.16.7

• Libadwaita 1.6.2

• GStreamer 1.24.10

• Pipewire 1.2.7

Bug summary

I cannot record anything

Steps to reproduce

• Open Kooha (See screenshot)
• Click "Record"
• Kooha will say an error occured while recording (see error)

Relevant logs, screenshots, screencasts, etc.

Error:

An error occurred while recording

Caused by:
    0: ../gstreamer/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/ext/vpx/gstvpxenc.c(1823): gst_vpx_enc_set_format (): /GstPipeline:pipeline4/GstBin:kooha-videoenc-bin/GstVP8Enc:vp8enc9:
       abi mismatch : (NULL)
    1: Failed to initialize encoder

Debugging logs: https://pastebin.com/uNpj9K3t

[marcelarie]

This happened to me too. I use hyprland.

[Neo-29]

same here with wayland on gnome and archlinux

[alistair-gemmell]

I don't know if this is related, but I encountered a similar problem with a gstreamer build, and it seemed to come about from a mismatch between builds of gstreamer and libvpx - there's a new release of gstreamer out that solved it for me

https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/vp8enc-vp9enc-not-working-pipeline-refuses-to-preroll-abi-mismatch/3886

[Neo-29]

I don't know if this is related, but I encountered a similar problem with a gstreamer build, and it seemed to come about from a mismatch between builds of gstreamer and libvpx - there's a new release of gstreamer out that solved it for me

https://discourse.gstreamer.org/t/vp8enc-vp9enc-not-working-pipeline-refuses-to-preroll-abi-mismatch/3886

Solved here too on archlinux 💪👍