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Video capture filename in --exec does not use the same time as the file
Occurred on Linux 5.15.7-xanmod1-tt-1 using xorg and i3wm
Steps to reproduce
- Start a video capture using the following command:
escrotum -r '~/img/screenshots/%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S.webm' -e 'echo $f' - Wait 5 seconds and then end the video capture using
Ctrl-Alt-s - Notice that the echo'd video filename will have the seconds field be 5 seconds later than that of the actual saved file.
Possible cause
It seems as though the filename's substitutions are getting expanded once at the beginning of capture, and then expanded a second time when the command executes, which means that the strftime(2) evaluation will be different each time. By capturing the strftime once at the beginning of program execution we can ensure that this discrepancy will not exist.