[FFmpeg-user] kmsgrab on Intel 8th generation aka h/w accelerated screen capture

[robertlazarski]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 7:10 PM, Kai Hendry <kai.hendry at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi ffmpeg users,
>
> Sorry I initially posted my question here:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/ffmpeg/comments/8tgejw/kmsgrab_on_intel_8th_
> generation_aka_hw/
>
> Via https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/VAAPI#ScreenCapture I
> discovered kmsgrab which astonishingly doesn't seem to drop frames or
> over heat my T480s when recording my Xorg display!
> Unlike when I record with x11grab & VAAPI:
> https://github.com/kaihendry/recordmydesktop2.0/blob/vaapi/x11capture#L55
> Also see: http://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2018-
> March/039227.html
> Same issue on ffmpeg 4.x btw:
> https://s.natalian.org/2018-06-25/1529888878.mp4.log
>
> However since kmsgrab requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN as it points out to its
> friendly documentation
> https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-devices.html#kmsgrab I believe I need to
> run it with `sudo`. However when I run it as `sudo` I hit a issue
> accessing my pulseaudio microphone.
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51007952/recording-
> pulse-audio-as-cap-sys-admin-with-ffmpeg
>
> Any tips how to get this all working?
> https://github.com/kaihendry/recordmydesktop2.0/blob/kms/x11capture#L54
> is my branch of kmsgrab based screen capture cli.
>
>
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That command worked for me though of course without your external dep.

Do you mean run ffmpeg as sudo? You need the proper entry in /etc/sudoers
and the ffmpeg command per sudo rules must have an absolute path like
/bin/ffmpeg.

Regards,
Robert