One of the biggest Vice updates so far. Every open bug was hunted down to its root cause, and three of the most requested features shipped alongside.
New features
- Game-tagged clips. Clips save as
Vice_Clip_4_Overwatch-2.mp4when a known game is focused, using the same curated game list as Discord Rich Presence. Toggle in Settings → Storage. (#72) - Separate audio tracks. Record game, voice chat, and microphone as their own tracks for editing, via Settings → Recording → Separate audio tracks. (#45, #53)
- MKV container option. Crash-safe recording for long sessions; MP4 stays the default since Discord embeds need it. (#50)
- Themed share embeds. Discord embeds now carry your accent color instead of gray. (#38)
Fixed
- Clips no longer hit "Timed out waiting for GSR clip to finish writing", and the startup remux that could corrupt healthy clips to 0.02s is gone. (#81)
- The resolution setting actually applies now; it was silently ignored on the default backend. (#80, thanks @quadruplea0 for the parallel PR)
- Audio desync from trimmed clips. (#73)
- Black/grey video when playing clips inside the Vice window. (#79, #68)
- vice-app segfault on NVIDIA setups without GBM. (#82)
- Memory leak while the window sat open. (#83)
- Unreadable white-on-white dropdowns on KDE Plasma 6 / Wayland. (#85, thanks @jethrothelion for pinning down the fix)
- Hotkeys survive unplugging and replugging your keyboard; no more daemon restarts. (#65)
- "Could not copy link": clipboard tools are now installed by the installer, and a manual-copy dialog appears if all else fails. (#76, #78)
- Share links could point at a serveo.net upsell page when cloudflared was missing. The fallback is gone; Vice now shows a clear error with an install hint instead. (#78)
- The installer no longer sprays hundreds of "rm: Permission denied" lines after building gpu-screen-recorder. (#84)
Other
- README rewritten around a two-command install.
- Errors that used to fail silently (audio detection, thumbnails, tunnel startup) now say why, in the log and in the UI.
- 60+ new tests.
Credits
- @quadruplea0: parallel fix for the resolution setting (#87).
- @jethrothelion: pinned down the Plasma 6 dropdown fix (#86).
- @eklonofficial: everything else.
Update with yay -Syu (AUR) or cd Vice && git pull && ./install.sh (git clone).