Switch back to vp8 encoder
Quoting the commit message:
Revert "recorder: Switch to vp9"
This reverts commit d183f13456991d12ea57ad14ba38a1f7407d0037.
Switching to the vp9 encoder seemed like a good idea at the time but
unfortunately it also has the major drawback, that it leaks a serious
amount of memory every time it is used. See
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/256#note_692743
for more details.
@skeller I reverted the commit now. As you did a lot of work in
triaging this, I am perfectly fine setting you as the author of the
commit if you want
Fixes: #256 (closed)