[Vnc2swf-users] Recording audio using pymedia

[David F. <da...@sj...>]

Hi

I posted a message earlier, "pyvnc2swf sound recording using pymedia",
before I was subscribed to the list... this is an updated version, along
with some installers

I've written an extension that enables recording sound alongside the
screen capture. It uses the pymedia library for the recording
This is similar to using the -S option, but it does it in-process using
python code.

I've attached a diff to vnc2swf.py and the new file record_sound.py. The
extra dependencies are on pymedia (I used 1.3.5.0) and the builtin
threading module

The recording is started in a separate thread and gets stopped in a
similar way to the subprocess getting stopped (it uses the same interface)

I added a new option -a filename.mp3 for the recording, and -m to
automatically merge the sound back into the video after recording (using
edit.py)

The diffs are to my restructured pyvnc2swf 0.8.2 that I posted about earlier

To convert the audio and combine it I run as follows

python vnc2swf.py -n -o recording.swf -a recording.mp3 -m vnchost

I've been reading around the web and it seems having this ability
incorporated within pyvnc2swf would make it more useful for a lot of
people - there doesn't seem to be an open source tool out there that
handles recording audio alongside screen captures nicely, so I hope this
is suitable for inclusion

I have built installers tentatively called 0.8.2.1 due to interest in
this from ShowMeDo.com, they are at
http://davidf.sjsoft.com/files/pyvnc2swf/
  pyvnc2swf-0.8.2.1.tar.gz  - source tarball
  pyvnc2swf-0.8.2.1.zip  - source zip file
  pyvnc2swf-0.8.2.1-py2.4.egg  - Python egg (from setuptools)
  pyvnc2swf-0.8.2.1-1.noarch.rpm  - RPM for Python 2.4
  pyvnc2swf-0.8.2.1-1.src.rpm  - Source RPM
  pyvnc2swf-0.8.2.1.win32.exe  - installer for installing Python package
under Windows
  pyvnc2swf-0.8.2.1-setup.exe  - standalone installer for installing
py2exe package under Windows (includes Python libraries and all
dependencies, doesn't require Python)

If anyone wants to try them out, please give feedback...

Regards
David