Spectacle not creating videos longer than one second

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I’ve been trying to use Spectacle to create videos to document software bugs, but I’m finding that it will only record 00:01 (one second), which clearly isn’t enough time. Is there a trick to getting Spectacle to record longer?

Thank you in advance.

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I just tested, recorded a 30sec video, no issues.
That said, output or logs are better for bug reports

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Are you using Wayland at login? Wayland is required for video capture with Spectacle, though, it should show an error message if not using Wayland.

You could also jump to a command line window and execute “spectacle” and see if any error message are shown.

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I have tried it under both X11 and Wayland. It does not display any errors under X11.

From a command line under X11:

~> spectacle
qt.qml.list.incompatible: Cannot append QQuickRepeater(0x55e3dfef1a40) to a QML list of QQuickAbstractButton*
qt.qml.list.incompatible: Cannot append QQuickRepeater(0x55e3dfef1a40) to a QML list of QQuickAbstractButton*
qt.qml.list.incompatible: Cannot append QQuickRepeater(0x55e3dfef1a40) to a QML list of QQuickAbstractButton*

Then exited, no other messages.

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It’s worth repeating… Spectacle will NOT offer video capture using X11 … Wayland is required.

Login using the “Plasma (Wayland)” option, then run from a command line window, to see if there is a clue.

Here I show recording successfully logged in using Wayland:

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Under a Wayland login it appeared to record. However when I stopped the recording, the Spectacle window shows Unsaved* -- Spectacle (Not Responding) and nothing on its UI can be selected.

I ran it from a terminal. This is the output so far (with Spectacle still not responding):

~> spectacle
libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_22
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: Mesa Gallium driver 24.1.7 for AMD RS780 (DRM 2.50.0 / 6.11.5-1-default, LLVM 18.1.8) in use for device "/dev/dri/renderD128"
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: DRM device not found
qt.qml.list.incompatible: Cannot append QQuickRepeater(0x564f5d549650) to a QML list of QQuickAbstractButton*
qt.qml.list.incompatible: Cannot append QQuickRepeater(0x564f5d549650) to a QML list of QQuickAbstractButton*
qt.qml.list.incompatible: Cannot append QQuickRepeater(0x564f5d549650) to a QML list of QQuickAbstractButton*
[libvpx-vp9 @ 0x7fc038112940] v1.14.1

I typed ps -e and killed the job to exit it.

Full output:

> spectacle
libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/r600_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_22
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: Mesa Gallium driver 24.1.7 for AMD RS780 (DRM 2.50.0 / 6.11.5-1-default, LLVM 18.1.8) in use for device "/dev/dri/renderD128"
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: DRM device not found
qt.qml.list.incompatible: Cannot append QQuickRepeater(0x564f5d549650) to a QML list of QQuickAbstractButton*
qt.qml.list.incompatible: Cannot append QQuickRepeater(0x564f5d549650) to a QML list of QQuickAbstractButton*
qt.qml.list.incompatible: Cannot append QQuickRepeater(0x564f5d549650) to a QML list of QQuickAbstractButton*
[libvpx-vp9 @ 0x7fc038112940] v1.14.1
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