Comment 70 for bug 63996

I had just assumed that all work had stopped on Istanbul. There are good
alternatives out there.

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Alroger Filho <email address hidden>wrote:

> I had the same problem in Lucid. Then I tried closing all apps,
> including empathy and then it worked. I mean it didn't freeze. But it
> records only a bit of sound then starts cuting it up... basically still
> doesn't work with sound capture.
>
> --
> Istanbul freezes when recording ends with Record Sound
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63996
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> Status in Desktop session recorder: Confirmed
> Status in “istanbul” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> When I try to record a screencast with istanbul the applet loads correctly
> and I can click the start record icon, but when I try to stop recording I
> cannot do it.
>
> The Istanbul icon changes to a disk indicating it is saving, but nothing
> ever happens. It has frozen, and needs to be killed.
>
> This occurs only when the Record Sound option is enabled.
>
> WORKAROUND:
> Disable the Record Sound option.
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