Too much resource usage

[lucaszrz]

Hello there.
So, I'm experiencing an issue here and I would like to see if anybody is getting this too and may help.

The record works well, after finishing it, the preview looks OK and everything is good, but when I hit the save button, the app consumes basically all my laptop resource, last night I've experienced an usage of 39% of my CPU (i5-8250U) and 6,3GB of RAM (8GB total).

I have this issue recording the monitor in full screen mode, without mic sound and computer sound checked, mouse pointer and borders on, 1 second delay, 60 FPS and GIF (and MP4) format.

When trying to save as GIF, my laptop frozen and I have to restart (three times) and as MP4, I could save without freezing, but the resource usage was pretty much the same.

Here's my laptop config

If there's any additional info that I'm missing, let me know that I'll provide it to help.

[mohelm97]

Hi @Lukaszz10 ,
Thanks a lot for this information,
I'm not sure, but how long is your record?
Encoding a long video to gif could take a lot of stuff and the output file size of the gif will be very huge, so I think we should limit the length of the recording if you choose gif, try :(

[lucaszrz]

My recordings wasn't that long, less than one minute actually.

My problem with this was it freezing my laptop, i think it would be better to use less resource and took a longer time to encode the vídeo than using as much as it can to encode faster.

[mohelm97]

I can confirm this, I think we need to change the gif encoding method, for now just use a low framerate it could save a few GBs, Thanks a lot for reporting this.
Note: I didn't manage to freeze my PC but still :D

[lucaszrz]

Hope this helps, I really like the app, I'll keep using it at a lower framerate as you said and wait for the update, thanks for the attention! (:

[nandgator]

Memory & CPU usage when the recorder hangs.