gdigrab screen captures are interrupted by secure desktop pop-ups

[leopold84]

Summary of the bug:

If you start screen capture with gdigrab and any secure desktop pop-up will appear (UAC or anything else), capture immediately stops.

How to reproduce:

1. Start screen capture using gdigrab device as input

   ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 30 -i desktop output.mkv
   

2. Launch any program as administrator or make a secure desktop to appear any other way

3. Once returned to the normal desktop, you will see that capture has stopped with the error similar to this one

   Failed to capture image (error 5)trate=   2.2kbits/s speed=0.54x
   desktop: I/O error
   

Expect result:

If it's not possible to capture secure desktop with gdigrab, it at least shouldn't interrupt the recording (i.e. back screen can be captured while secure desktop is present).

[leopold84]

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[Balling]

UAC or anything else

Turn it off then, LOL. I did it like 10 years ago.

[Marton Balint]

This is not a regression, so decreasing priority.

Have you tried running ffmpeg with elevated privileges?

This looks like an enhancement request for an option which enables capturing black frames when BitBlt fails. BitBlt can fail also for locked screen, no display, etc.

[leopold84]

Replying to Marton Balint:

This is not a regression, so decreasing priority.

Have you tried running ffmpeg with elevated privileges?

This looks like an enhancement request for an option which enables capturing black frames when BitBlt fails. BitBlt can fail also for locked screen, no display, etc.

Running ffmpeg from elevated Command Prompt was the first thing I tried, this doesn't help.

However, I think you might be right regarding the cause of this problem because capture fails with the same error after UAC pop-up and after screen lock.

[TomSelleck]

+1, would be great to have the option to continue capture with a blank screen when this happens