From 8239b910fe8688350a0562e375827b8d1f835a73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rattatwinko <seppmutterman@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:02:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] recording was fucked up. FIX! mainly in RecordingFrame

---
 .../io/swtc/proccessing/ui/iframe/RecordingFrame.java |  4 ++--
 .../java/io/swtc/recording/cv/FrameProccessor.java    | 11 ++++++-----
 src/main/java/io/swtc/recording/cv/MediaSink.java     |  4 ++++
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/io/swtc/proccessing/ui/iframe/RecordingFrame.java b/src/main/java/io/swtc/proccessing/ui/iframe/RecordingFrame.java
index 53cc3ce..1d6848d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/swtc/proccessing/ui/iframe/RecordingFrame.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/swtc/proccessing/ui/iframe/RecordingFrame.java
@@ -147,8 +147,8 @@ public class RecordingFrame extends JInternalFrame {
                     sample.getWidth(),
                     sample.getHeight(),
                     20,    // Frame Rate
-                    25,    // CRF (Quality)
-                    "ultrafast"
+                    18,    // CRF (Quality)
+                    "superfast"
             );
 
             // 2. Initialize the HA Recorder
diff --git a/src/main/java/io/swtc/recording/cv/FrameProccessor.java b/src/main/java/io/swtc/recording/cv/FrameProccessor.java
index b4e0a87..6bf0f5e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/swtc/recording/cv/FrameProccessor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/swtc/recording/cv/FrameProccessor.java
@@ -15,13 +15,14 @@ public class FrameProccessor {
             reuseImg = new BufferedImage(
                     rawImg.getWidth(),
                     rawImg.getHeight(),
-                    BufferedImage.TYPE_3BYTE_BGR // default java BufferedImage Type
+                    BufferedImage.TYPE_3BYTE_BGR
             );
-
-            var g = reuseImg.createGraphics();
-            g.drawImage(rawImg, 0, 0, null);
-            g.dispose();
         }
+
+        var g = reuseImg.createGraphics();
+        g.drawImage(rawImg, 0, 0, null);
+        g.dispose();
+
         return converter.getFrame(reuseImg);
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/io/swtc/recording/cv/MediaSink.java b/src/main/java/io/swtc/recording/cv/MediaSink.java
index bf440d2..c9ea6f7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/swtc/recording/cv/MediaSink.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/swtc/recording/cv/MediaSink.java
@@ -20,9 +20,13 @@ public class MediaSink {
         recorder.setFormat("mp4");
         recorder.setPixelFormat(avutil.AV_PIX_FMT_BGR24);
         recorder.setFrameRate(config.fps());
+        /* this is essentially just building FFmpeg? Would've used ProccessBuilder for this lol */
         recorder.setVideoOption("pixel_format", "yuv420p");
         recorder.setVideoOption("preset", config.preset());
         recorder.setVideoOption("crf", String.valueOf(config.crf()));
+        recorder.setVideoOption("tune", "zerolatency");
+        recorder.setVideoOption("x264opts", "keyint=40:min-keyint=20");
+        recorder.setVideoBitrate(0); // 0 tells the recorder to respect CRF strictly
         recorder.setGopSize(config.fps() * 2);
 
         recorder.start();