Hi all, As a test, I have a recording of an RDP session which, after initially connecting to and displaying the remote display, remains inactive (no further display updates or user input) for approximately 1 minute. The file size of this recording is ~880K.
However, when I encode this session recording to m4v using guacenc (at 50% width/height of the original recording) the size of the outputted m4v file is ~12MB. This is almost 14x the size of the original recording. I had speculated that this was possibly due to guacenc writing a frame on every "sync" but even after updating guacenc to ignore a sync if there have been no updates to the display the size of the outputted m4v file remains the same (~12MB). I don't really know too much about video encoding so am reaching out in the hope that someone can suggest what might be happening and how I could possibly alter the behavior of guacenc to "optimize" the file size of the outputted file for such periods of inactivity in the session recording. Thanks in advance, Andrew.
