I upgraded my project from 2021 to 2022 and now the recorder slows down horribly. From the profile I see this:
Does anyone know what the issue might be. I realize that that operation can be slow, but I think something else is going on.
Which recorder is this?
Is deep profiling disabled?
Is this runtime or in editor?
- This is the Unity recorder of course.
2 No deep profiler was not on. I was not aware of the setting.
3 This is on the editor (Recorder only works on editor anyways no?).
I mixed up some features. Which version of the recorder are you using?
I am using 4.0.1 · May 17, 2023 (Which I totally thought it was the latest). But I just realized there is a new one. I will report back on this.
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Ok I uploaded latest: 4.0.2 · November 09, 2023 Same issue.
I also notice that the problem is only happening with the movie recorder when running from script. It works fine from the Recorder Window. So the problem must be with a setting. Here is what my code looks like:
public class GameScreenRecorder : ScreenRecorder
{
[SerializeField] private int _outputWidth = 256;
[SerializeField] private int _outputHeight = 256;
private RecorderController _recorderController = null;
private MovieRecorderSettings _videoRecorder;
private RecorderControllerSettings _controllerSettings;
public int OnRecordingComplete { get; private set; }
public void Awake()
{
_controllerSettings = ScriptableObject.CreateInstance<RecorderControllerSettings>();
_recorderController = new RecorderController(_controllerSettings);
_videoRecorder = ScriptableObject.CreateInstance<MovieRecorderSettings>();
_videoRecorder.name = "MovieRecorder";
_videoRecorder.Enabled = true;
_videoRecorder.VideoBitRateMode = VideoBitrateMode.High;
_videoRecorder.ImageInputSettings = new GameViewInputSettings
{
OutputWidth = _outputWidth,
OutputHeight = _outputHeight
};
_videoRecorder.AudioInputSettings.PreserveAudio = false;
_controllerSettings.AddRecorderSettings(_videoRecorder);
_controllerSettings.FrameRate = FramesPerSecond;
RecorderOptions.VerboseMode = false;
}
public override void StartRecording(String path, String movieFileName)
{
_videoRecorder.OutputFile = Path.Combine(path, movieFileName);
_controllerSettings.AddRecorderSettings(_videoRecorder);
_recorderController.PrepareRecording();
_recorderController.StartRecording();
}
public override void StopRecording()
{
_recorderController.StopRecording();
}
public override bool IsRecording()
{
return _recorderController.IsRecording();
}
public void OnApplicationQuit()
{
_recorderController.StopRecording();
}
Am I missing some setting? Documentation is not very clear so this is hard to work with. If anyone has any input I would appreciate the feedback.
I also did a profile with deepProfiling and I seem to get similar information:
That writeSamples seems to be the issue.
Ok answering my own question here. And good thing I do not need audio. Because
_videoRecorder.CaptureAudio = false;
Fixes the problem ! Don’t ask me I have no idea why.
Maybe file a bug report for that?