Peek only relies on ffmpeg for screen recording on non-GNOME desktops
on X11, afaik.
On GNOME, it uses the org.gnome.Shell.Screencast interface which
offloads all of the heavy work to GNOME shell.
-- Carson Black [jan Pontaoski]
Am Mi., 1. Jan. 2020 um 09:51 Uhr schrieb Mattia Verga via devel
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>
> The `peek` package has been approved in Fedora repositories [1], but it
> doesn't even start without ffmpeg installed [2], which is not
> distributed in Fedora repositories (but is available in rpmfusion):
>
> $ peek
> Error: Child process exited with code 1
> Unable to create default screen recorder.
>
> The peek specfile contains a `Recommends: ffmpeg >= 3`, which is rather
> confusing... I think this package should never have passed the review
> process! It should really stay in rpmfusion repository.
>
> Is this something allowed? Should I file a ticket against the package or
> against fedora-infra to suggest its retirement?
>
> Mattia
>
> [1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1709029
> [2]
https://github.com/phw/peek/issues/485
>
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