Screen Recording Cuts to 1/4 on macOS Sequoia 15.1.1

[rohit3d2003]

While using gitcap.dev on the Chrome browser, the screen recording feature captures only the top-left quarter of the tab instead of the full screen. The recorded content appears zoomed in. This behavior occurs across multiple browsers, including Chrome, Edge, and Safari.

Interestingly, this issue is not present on macOS Sonoma, suggesting that it may be specific to macOS Sequoia 15.1.1.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open any browser (e.g., Chrome, Edge, Safari) on macOS Sequoia 15.1.1.
2. Navigate to gitcap.dev.
3. Start a screen recording session.
4. Check the recording output.

Expected Behavior

The screen recording should capture the entire tab as seen during the session.

Actual Behavior

The recording captures only the top-left quarter of the tab, and the content appears zoomed in.

Environment

1. Browsers Tested: Chrome, Edge, Safari
2. Operating System: macOS Sequoia 15.1.1

Additional Information

1. The issue does not occur on macOS Sonoma.
2. This behavior seems related to the macOS Sequoia upgrade.
3. A workaround or temporary fix would be appreciated while the issue is being resolved.

Attaching a recording generated showing how the browser screen is cut into 1/4

[hucki]

I am facing exactly the same issue, with two exceptions

a) the very first screen capture was produced in full screen. Only every subsequent screen capture afterwards is cropped as described above
b) when cropped, the first frame of every screen capture is still full screen

This also applies to incognito mode. The first time a full screen capture is produced, every subsequent time the result is cropped even if the browser is closed and new incognito tabs are opened.

Even clearing the browser cache and application storage, does not restore functionality.

Chrome Version 131.0.6778.86
macOS Sequoia 15.1.1

[ktaragorn]

This happens on Windows chrome as well.

[ktaragorn]

And I vaguely recalled I had it earlier as well, and I was right, it is an old issue #89

[ktaragorn]

Work around is to record the whole window rather than just a tab, and then trim as needed.

[qoreycube]

This possibly has something to do with meta viewport tags. I noticed the same thing happening to me, and it was completely frustrating...

On a whim, I went into dev tools, found the head tag and removed the <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> tag from the website I was trying to cap, and it suddenly started not zooming in.