[Vnc2swf-users] Great program, some comments

[mcquaid m. <mcq...@gm...>]

Tried a few and this one is the best for what I need.

A few things, is there no way to have play, pause, maybe a slider in a
browser or only through play.py?  Looking through the html file, I see it
mentioning play, pause, slider, but I don't see them in firefox and epiphany
but they didn't show in either.

Also, I wanted to make some screen casts to eventually upload to a blog.
I've never bothered with blogging, how will it work when I need to upload
two files (html & swf) to play?  I haven't tried yet but wasn't sure if
there were some blogs more friendly to that.

Regarding audio, I use -S with arecord like so  arecord -c 1 -r 22050 -t wav
voice.wav which sounded fine.  But just to see how far I could push the
audio side I tried -r 16000, but edit complained of an error dealing with
rate.  (something like error !16000).  I use lame for the mp3 conversion and
simply do lame voice.wav voice.mp3.  But when I tried to add -b 16000 I got
the same error.  Same thing for 8000.  Is this a flash limitation or
something with edit.py or in the way I'm capturing/encoding audio?

Btw, are there any plans on adding a hotkey for stop start and maybe an
ability to pause?  I know they can be edited later but it's kinda cumbersome
esp when having to deal with a seperate audio file.  I wonder if there are
any flash editors that these work in.

Also, I tried wink, and did not like the performance but thought the option
to make an optimized palette was a nice option, does pyvnc2swf do something
similar with its compression? I use compression with edit, but I noticed
when starting pyvnc2swf iit also mentions compression (compression: none).
Is this referring to zlib compression or some other option during capture? I
don't see an option for that.  If it's zlib, it's reading that from the vnc
session?  I use vnc4server/viewer in ubuntu and it says the default for zlib
is 1 (zero being off)  so I don't think it's referring to that.  The max for
zlib is 9, should one increase the default for typical screencasts?  I bring
this up because it's mentioned in the readme that compression during edit is
largely redundant due to zlib compression and so far I"m been compressing
during edit and noticing a fair file size decrease, but I wouldn't mind if I
could compress on the fly if it's not too cpu intensive.