Re: [Vnc2swf-users] How to record withOUT audio

[The A. <the...@gm...>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Oscar Usifer <osc...@pr...>wrote:

>  This is indeed a good work around, but converting to a streaming flash
> video is slow, (as you pointed) out using pyvnc2swf's edit.py. Is there a
> faster version or another converter that can be used?
>

I haven't yet found a better way.

vncrec can be used to play the raw vnc stream right away, but it has no
playback controls.  When reviewing a 4 hour session and looking for a short
piece in the middle, it's nearly useless.  So far, using pyvnc2swf to
convert the entire thing to flash is the only way I've found to get plaback
controls and a time counter.

Complicating this is the way pyvnc2swf is written... it can't process the
vnc file as a stream, so you can't just zcat the compressed file.  Instead
you need a lot of temp disk space to uncompress the entire vnc stream
first.  The temp file gets even larger because vncrec can't record
compressed vnc streams (e.g. tight, copyrect) so I have to use raw encoding
to get vncrec to work.  I'm just glad that I very rarely have to review vnc
logs, and leaving the (relatively small) log.vnc.gz files around isn't bad.

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The Amigo