Spectacle not recording video

Issues & Assistance
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I saw a similar thread here about this, it was marked as solved, but it really isn’t - at least not for me. I have nvidia 4060TI and Ryzen9 9950X.

When starting spectacle normally - screen recording says recording, but then that file is never written. The workaround from this thread works - Spectacle doesnt record my screen - #15 by Melon - but the logs are far from clean:

LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=”” spectacle
spectacle: Unable to load Tesseract candidate “libtesseract.so.5” : “Cannot load library libtesseract.so.5: libtesseract.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”
spectacle: Unable to load Tesseract candidate “libtesseract.so.4” : “Cannot load library libtesseract.so.4: libtesseract.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”
spectacle: Unable to load Tesseract candidate “libtesseract.so” : “Cannot load library libtesseract.so: libtesseract.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”
spectacle: Unable to locate a suitable Tesseract shared library
spectacle: Tesseract runtime library not available
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: Failed to initialize display
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: DRM device not found
kpipewire_record_logging: Hardware encoding is not supported on this device.
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] -qscale is ignored, -crf is recommended.
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX FMA3 BMI2 AVX2 AVX512
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] profile Main, level 6.2, 4:2:0, 8-bit
kpipewire_dmabuf_logging: eglChooseConfig returned this many configs: 1
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 60030 >= 60030
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 71010 >= 71010
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 82800 >= 82800
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 153270 >= 153270
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 165060 >= 165060
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 175950 >= 175950
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 186750 >= 186750
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 426600 >= 426600
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 437670 >= 437670
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 448650 >= 448650
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 460710 >= 460710
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 546750 >= 546750
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 557910 >= 557910
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 570150 >= 570150
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 641160 >= 641160
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 651510 >= 651510
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 661140 >= 661140
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 670770 >= 670770
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 680310 >= 680310
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 689940 >= 689940
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 699480 >= 699480
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 709110 >= 709110
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 719640 >= 719640
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 730080 >= 730080
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 740700 >= 740700
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 750510 >= 750510
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 760230 >= 760230
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 769860 >= 769860
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 781290 >= 781290
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 791910 >= 791910
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 802350 >= 802350
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 812880 >= 812880
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 822600 >= 822600
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 832140 >= 832140
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 841770 >= 841770
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 851310 >= 851310
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 861030 >= 861030
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 870570 >= 870570
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 880200 >= 880200
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1047150 >= 1047150
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1056690 >= 1056690
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1066410 >= 1066410
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1076130 >= 1076130
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1085940 >= 1085940
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1095570 >= 1095570
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1105290 >= 1105290
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1115820 >= 1115820
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1126350 >= 1126350
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1136880 >= 1136880
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1146600 >= 1146600
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1156320 >= 1156320
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1165950 >= 1165950
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1210410 >= 1210410
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1219950 >= 1219950
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1229490 >= 1229490
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1239120 >= 1239120
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1248660 >= 1248660
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fb6cf3d7c80] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 1425690 >= 1425690
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] frame I:6 Avg QP:15.08 size:174935
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] frame P:497 Avg QP:18.30 size: 4298
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] mb I I16..4: 75.4% 0.0% 24.6%
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] mb P I16..4: 1.0% 0.0% 0.2% P16..4: 2.5% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% skip:96.0%
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 18.4% 23.0% 21.4% inter: 0.4% 2.3% 1.8%
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] i16 v,h,dc,p: 58% 41% 1% 0%
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 33% 24% 20% 3% 3% 4% 3% 4% 5%
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] i8c dc,h,v,p: 71% 24% 4% 1%
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] Weighted P-Frames: Y:0.0% UV:0.0%
[libx264 @ 0x7fb6cc05fac0] kb/s:1587.96
kf.kio.workers.file: copy() QUrl(“file:///tmp/Spectacle.aSdunb/Screencast_20260321_211444.mp4”) to QUrl(“file:///home/-/Videos/Screencasts/Screencast_20260321_211444.mp4”) mode= -1
qt.multimedia.ffmpeg: Using Qt multimedia with FFmpeg version n8.1 GPL version 3 or later
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from ‘/home/-/Videos/Screencasts/Screencast_20260321_211444.mp4’:
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 512
compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
encoder : Lavf62.12.100
Duration: 00:00:16.05, start: 0.029000, bitrate: 1436 kb/s
Stream #0:00x1: Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(progressive), 2264x1152, 1434 kb/s, 27.73 fps, 58 tbr, 90k tbn, start 0.029000 (default)
Metadata:
handler_name : VideoHandler

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show
pacman -Qs vdpau

3

pacman -Qs vdpau

local/libvdpau 1.5-4.1
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/vlc-plugins-video-output 3.0.21-32.1
Free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework - video output plugins

4

try

export NVD_BACKEND=direct LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia && spectacle

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export NVD_BACKEND=direct LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia && spectacle
spectacle: Unable to load Tesseract candidate “libtesseract.so.5” : “Cannot load library libtesseract.so.5: libtesseract.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”
spectacle: Unable to load Tesseract candidate “libtesseract.so.4” : “Cannot load library libtesseract.so.4: libtesseract.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”
spectacle: Unable to load Tesseract candidate “libtesseract.so” : “Cannot load library libtesseract.so: libtesseract.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”
spectacle: Unable to locate a suitable Tesseract shared library
spectacle: Tesseract runtime library not available
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: VA-API NVDEC driver [direct backend] in use for device “/dev/dri/renderD128”
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: entrypoint 6 of profile 13 is not supported by the device “/dev/dri/renderD128”
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: entrypoint 8 of profile 13 is not supported by the device “/dev/dri/renderD128”
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: entrypoint 6 of profile 6 is not supported by the device “/dev/dri/renderD128”
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: entrypoint 8 of profile 6 is not supported by the device “/dev/dri/renderD128”
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: entrypoint 6 of profile 7 is not supported by the device “/dev/dri/renderD128”
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: entrypoint 8 of profile 7 is not supported by the device “/dev/dri/renderD128”
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: VA-API NVDEC driver [direct backend] in use for device “/dev/dri/renderD129”
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: entrypoint 6 of profile 13 is not supported by the device “/dev/dri/renderD129”
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: entrypoint 8 of profile 13 is not supported by the device “/dev/dri/renderD129”
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: entrypoint 6 of profile 6 is not supported by the device “/dev/dri/renderD129”
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: entrypoint 8 of profile 6 is not supported by the device “/dev/dri/renderD129”
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: entrypoint 6 of profile 7 is not supported by the device “/dev/dri/renderD129”
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: VAAPI: entrypoint 8 of profile 7 is not supported by the device “/dev/dri/renderD129”
kpipewire_vaapi_logging: DRM device not found
kpipewire_record_logging: Hardware encoding is not supported on this device.
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] -qscale is ignored, -crf is recommended.
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX FMA3 BMI2 AVX2 AVX512
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] profile Main, level 6.1, 4:2:0, 8-bit
kpipewire_dmabuf_logging: eglChooseConfig returned this many configs: 1
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 113670 >= 113670
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 124920 >= 124920
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 135810 >= 135810
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 146610 >= 146610
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 158400 >= 158400
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 169920 >= 169920
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 341280 >= 341280
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 352170 >= 352170
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 364050 >= 364050
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 378990 >= 378990
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 390960 >= 390960
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 414270 >= 414270
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 425250 >= 425250
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 437310 >= 437310
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 449010 >= 449010
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 460260 >= 460260
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 472320 >= 472320
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 499140 >= 499140
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 604530 >= 604530
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 614970 >= 614970
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 625590 >= 625590
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 636210 >= 636210
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 646110 >= 646110
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 655920 >= 655920
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] non-strictly-monotonic PTS
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 727290 >= 727290
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 737010 >= 737010
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 747000 >= 747000
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 756720 >= 756720
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 766350 >= 766350
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 776790 >= 776790
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 787590 >= 787590
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 798030 >= 798030
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 807660 >= 807660
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 817560 >= 817560
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 827190 >= 827190
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[mp4 @ 0x7fa0135b4000] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: 836820 >= 836820
kpipewire_record_logging: Error while writing output packet: Invalid argument
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] frame I:3 Avg QP:16.64 size:165071
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] frame P:249 Avg QP:18.79 size: 4842
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] mb I I16..4: 69.6% 0.0% 30.4%
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] mb P I16..4: 2.3% 0.0% 0.3% P16..4: 5.1% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% skip:91.8%
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] coded y,uvDC,uvAC intra: 14.1% 22.0% 17.8% inter: 0.7% 4.7% 3.4%
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] i16 v,h,dc,p: 57% 42% 1% 0%
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 34% 21% 17% 4% 6% 5% 4% 5% 4%
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] i8c dc,h,v,p: 45% 50% 4% 1%
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] Weighted P-Frames: Y:0.0% UV:0.0%
[libx264 @ 0x7fa01005f400] kb/s:1432.25
kf.kio.workers.file: copy() QUrl(“file:///tmp/Spectacle.WOVAsz/Screencast_20260322_143819.mp4”) to QUrl(“file:///home/-/Videos/Screencasts/Screencast_20260322_143819.mp4”) mode= -1
qt.multimedia.ffmpeg: Using Qt multimedia with FFmpeg version n8.1 GPL version 3 or later
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from ‘/home/-/Videos/Screencasts/Screencast_20260322_143819.mp4’:
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 512
compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
encoder : Lavf62.12.100
Duration: 00:00:09.41, start: 0.018000, bitrate: 1272 kb/s
Stream #0:00x1: Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(progressive), 1976x926, 1269 kb/s, 22.96 fps, 59 tbr, 90k tbn, start 0.018000 (default)
Metadata:
handler_name : VideoHandler

6

sudo pacman -S libvdpau-va-gl
resrtart and test with and without export variables

7

With or without the variable, when started from the terminal, the video gets recorded and the file is there, even with all the error scrolls in the terminal.
When started from the keyboard shortcut or from App panel shortcut - It says it records, but the file is never created.

8

I noticed this much and mine on tesseract:

NVD_BACKEND=direct LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia && spectacle                                                                                   

spectacle: Attempting to use Tesseract library "tesseract"
spectacle: Detected Tesseract version "5.5.2"
spectacle: Loaded Tesseract runtime library from "libtesseract.so"

Try to install it, or re-installing.

Then Reload:

sudo ldconfig   

ldconfig -p | grep libtesseract                                                                                                            


        libtesseract.so.5 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libtesseract.so.5
        libtesseract.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libtesseract.so

https://streamable.com/1oxlhw

9

That is an OCR module, but nevertheless, not working even with it installed. I’ll try to reinstall spectacle later and see…

10

I’m not sure how you call spectacle to record, I’ll use Key-Combo [Ctrl] + [Meta or Window logo]+[r]

I’m not much of GUI user, I rely heavily on CLI.

11

So I came up with a somewhat elegant solution to this.

First, we copy the system copy of the desktop file to our local path:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications/
cp /usr/share/applications/org.kde.spectacle.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

Then we edit the Exec directives inside the desktop file to prefix the environment variable using bash as a wrapper so they actually take effect:

sed -i 's|Exec=spectacle|Exec=bash -c "NVD_BACKEND=direct LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia spectacle|g' \
        ~/.local/share/applications/org.kde.spectacle.desktop

And finally we reload this so it takes effect:

kbuildsycoca6

This seems to fix it for now - there’s probably a real solution upstream but for a workaround this is fine.

12

To be fair I never had issue’s on spectacle recording, but this workaround breaks recording for me.

Thanks though @Xaero252 and Welcome to the forums. :wink:

13

Yes, it’s a pretty fragile solution as it’s Nvidia hardware and closed source driver dependent dependent. It does result in my screen capture both working and using Nvidia vaapi for acceleration.Though, I think that’s also the primary cause for the model of failure to begin with. I imagine AMD and Intel graphics hardware has no such issue without the workaround.

14

i think, this one unsolved (kinda) issue for specatcle (since kde plasma update to major release last year i think), so i think better made an issue on spectacle instead
from what i’ve experienced in the past (still using 3070)
this is easily fixed (last year), by enabling the onboard gpu (from my 7950x3d)
because the spectacle is kinda only wants to use igpu / amd related if your cpu is AMD
so it’s fine if you’re using AMD GPU, but when using NVIDIA GPU, it’s broke like this (since last year)

just sharing my experiences when using spectacle + nvidia gpu