Re: [Vnc2swf-users] a possible issue that record for long time

[Hao, X. <hao...@gm...>]

I set framerate=5, record would exit exception in 10 min, and swf file is
8.2M, nothing to record. The following is error info.

[root@vt-px2 bin]# ./vnc2swf.py -n -o /root/test.swf -r 5 -P
/root/.vnc/passwd l
ocalhost:1
Using pygame 1.8.0release
/usr/local/share/pyvnc2swf-0.9.3/pyvnc2swf/image.py:45: RuntimeWarning: use
mixe
r: No module named mixer
  pygame.mixer.quit()
Connected: localhost:5901, protocol_version=3.8, preferred_encoding=(0,
-232, -2
39)
VNC Screen: size=1024x768, name='vt-px2:1 (root)'
Output movie size: 1024x768
Creating movie: '/root/test.swf': version=5, size=1024x768, framerate=5,
compres
sion=None
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./vnc2swf.py", line 581, in ?
    if __name__ == "__main__": main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "./vnc2swf.py", line 569, in main
    merge=merge, debug=debug)
  File "./vnc2swf.py", line 421, in vnc2swf
    stream.close()
  File "/usr/local/share/pyvnc2swf-0.9.3/pyvnc2swf/output.py", line 502, in
clos
e
    self.writer.write_file(self.output_frames)
  File "/usr/local/share/pyvnc2swf-0.9.3/pyvnc2swf/swf.py", line 789, in
write_f
ile
    assert not self.fpstack, 'nonempty fpstack: %r' % self.fpstack
AssertionError: nonempty fpstack: [<open file '/root/test.swf', mode 'wb' at
0xb
718b7b8>]


On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Hao, Xudong <hao...@gm...> wrote:

> Yes, this article offer to us a method that linking some small flash file
> together. Could we set a file named method, the first file named
> file_01.swf, when reaching the limitation, vnc2swf can auto close the first
> file and continue recording to the second file file_02.swf...
>
> BTW: Yusuke, I noticed you said it can directly recording to mpeg format,
> would you please speci what's command and what other tools should be
> install, thanks!
>
> Best Regards
> Xudong
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Matthew Turner <ths...@ho...>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>> Yusuke is correct, what you are seeing is a limitation of the swf format.
>> 16,000 frames is the limit after this limit playback will stop. You can set
>> the framerate to as low as you want but eventually you will hit 16,000
>> frames and playback will end.
>>
>> see this kb article for more information on the swf specifications:
>>
>>
>> http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14437&sliceId=2
>>
>> Regards,
>> Matt
>>
>> ________________________________
>> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:15:35 +0800
>> From: hao...@gm...
>> To: vnc...@li...
>> Subject: Re: [Vnc2swf-users] a possible issue that record for long time
>>
>> Thanks for your clear comments, however, I set the framerate to 5, but it
>> still exit unusually before three hours.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Xudong
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/17/08, Yusuke Shinyama> wrote:
>> Due to the limitation of frames in swf file, pyvnc2swf cannot
>> record movies that are more than 1.5 hours (assuming the recording
>>
>> rate is 12 frames/sec, 65536/12 = 5461 seconds maximum.) You
>> should chop the recording into separate sessions.
>>
>> Recording it into another format directly, such as mpeg or flv,
>> could create a longer movie, but I didn't test the program with a
>>
>> recording more than 30 min.
>>
>> Yusuke
>>
>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:48:11 +0800, "Hao, Xudong"> wrote:
>> > hi, all
>> > I used python version vnc2swf to record screen for long time(about
>> sevral
>>
>> > hours), but vnc2swf would exit unusually, and can not record anything.
>> does
>> > anyone else met this issue?
>> > BTW: my OS is 64bits RHEL5.
>> >
>> > Best Regards
>> > Xudong
>> >
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