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EasySR screen recorder fix audio cutoff

June 27, 2026 — BarryK

Recording on-the-fly audio and video with ffmpeg, using x11grab, direct to an MP4 file, results in audio getting cutoff prematurely at the end.

There is a lot of online discussion about this, but I could not find anything to fix it. Except this page, that shows how it can be minimized:

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/11330

I have added "-preset ultrafast", which gets the cutoff audio to just under 1 second. That's OK, now that I know, will stop talking 1 second or more before ending the video.

Note, there is another little issue, was getting duplicate video resolution radiobuttons, fixed that too.   

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YouTube video Part-7 version update

June 27, 2026 — BarryK

This video shows how easy it is to update EasyOS to the latest version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVZIyH_CwBc

All of the videos in this EasyOS-series may be seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/@barrykauler/videos    

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YouTube EasyOS-series Part-6 access phone

June 27, 2026 — BarryK

I created a short video showing how to access your Android phone from the EasyOS desktop:

"EasyOS Part6: Access android phone"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et0f6YAmg1M

You must use a USB cable that is capable of data transfer, not a charging-only cable. Well, it won't work if you try with a charging-only cable.

I plan to show how to run "Droidcam", to use a phone as a webcam, in the next video.  

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EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.4.2

June 27, 2026 — BarryK

Newcomers to EasyOS, please read the 7.4 announcement, as it has more detailed information:

Changes since version 7.4.1:

Limine bootloader has been updated from 10.7.0. Unfortunately, we cannot bump to the 12.x version, due to a change in I/O handling that renders our ext4 patch invalid. See here. To jump to 12.x, we will have to drop support for ext2/3/4, which will require 'vmlinuz' and 'initrd' to be in a vfat partition. Very reluctant to do that.

Download:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/excalibur/2026/7.4.2/

Newcomers will also find the new YouTube videos helpful with getting started:

https://www.youtube.com/@barrykauler/videos

Feedback welcome at the forum:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=172954#p172954

Have fun!    

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Limine version 12.3.3 panic

June 26, 2026 — BarryK

I posted yesterday about compiling the latest Limine bootloader

Built EasyOS with it, what was to be version 7.4.2; however, got a Limine panic loading 'vmlinuz'.

Have reported it to the developer mintsuki:

https://github.com/Limine-Bootloader/Limine/issues/602    

Tags: easy

Xlibre xserver segfaults

June 25, 2026 — BarryK

I posted earlier today about recompiling Xlibre:

Alfons sent me the content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log, testing on a computer with nvidia gpu. The xserver segfaults.

I had a look at the project "Issues" on github.com, and unfortunately there are a lot of reports of the server crashing:

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues

I posted the Xorg.0.log from Alfons here:

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues/3144

Unfortunately, Xlibre is too unstable. The next release of Easy will be built with the normal Xorg packages. Unless the Xlibre developers come back with a fix.    

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Xlibre recompiled

June 25, 2026 — BarryK

EasyOS version 7.4 is built with Xlibre; however, with 7.4.1 reverted to the normal Devuan/Debian Xorg packages. This was because testers of 7.4 reported that X failed to start with nvidia gpu.

I don't have a computer with nvidia gpu, so cannot test. It would have been good if they had posted content of /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but we didn't get into trying to debug. I just went back to the normal Xorg.

However, have discovered a configure setting that might be a factor, so have recompiled Xlibre and will build it into Easy 7.4.2. If still no joy with nvidia, will need to examine the failure logs, for example Xorg.0.log  

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Limine bootloader version 12.3.3 compiled

June 25, 2026 — BarryK

EasyOS currently has version 10.7.0, with our ext2/3/4 support patch. It has been reported in the forum that limine has failed to load the Linux kernel on an old PC; perhaps it will help to bump to the latest version of limine.

I have compiled limine version 12.3.3 in woofQ2, and also fixed the ext2/3/4 patch. A PET package has been created, that will be in the next build of EasyOS.

Limine project site:

https://github.com/Limine-Bootloader/Limine    

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