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Frame rate is extremely low

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale

Research direction

Start by reproducing the camera app's roughly 1 fps behavior on elementary OS 7.x and compare it with Cheese, as described in the issue. Investigate the performance difference and use smooth video as the completion criterion; the payload names no source files or tests to begin with.

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Description

What Happened?

The frame rate of this app is extremely low, close to 1 fps. In comparison, Cheese is fine, very responsive actually. And in other applications it's also not an issue.

Steps to Reproduce
  1. Open camera app.
Expected Behavior

Having smooth video.

OS Version

7.x (Horus)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

Screenshot from 2024-07-20 11 09 19@2x

Dominant language
Vala
Stars
68
Forks
19
Avg merge
6h 42m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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