Video freez when i use overlay while recording

[waleedterhana]

Hi sskodje. Hope doing well.

When I capture YouTube videos with ScreenRecorderLib with the overlay option, it halts or freezes the capturing video. But when I click anywhere on my screen, the video capturing becomes smooth. Below is my sample C# code to use the overlay option.

string WatermarkPath10 = Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, "Resources", "Watermark10.png");

if (!File.Exists(WatermarkPath10))
{
MessageBox.Show("Overlay image not found!");
return;
}
var overlays = new List();
overlays.Add(new ImageOverlay
{
AnchorPoint = Anchor.BottomLeft,
SourcePath = safeWatermark,
Offset = new ScreenSize(0, 0),
Size = new ScreenSize(320, 25),
Stretch = StretchMode.UniformToFill,

});

var opts = new RecorderOptions
{

SourceOptions = new SourceOptions
{
    RecordingSources = CreateSelectedRecordingSources()

} ,
OverlayOptions = new OverLayOptions()
{
    Overlays = overlays,
}

Regards
Terhana

[sskodje]

Sorry for the late reply. I have not been able to reproduce the issue. Does it only happen if you use overlays? Normally Windows won't push frame updates for static content, so if you for example record an empty desktop, the framerate will become very low. If you click or move the mouse it will start pushing updates again, since there is new content to record. It sounds odd that overlays should affect this behavior though.

[waleedterhana]

Yes,it only happen if you use overlays