Re: [Vnc2swf-users] vnc2flv comments and questions

[Yusuke S. <yu...@cs...>]

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:34:36 +0000, Brian Candler <B.C...@po...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope this is the right place to post about vnc2flv, the successor to
> pyvnc2swf.
> 

Well, actually, the right place is http://groups.google.com/group/vnc2flv-users/
but I'll continue to discuss here for now.

> It seems that arecord on my machine is defaulting to 8000 samples per
> second, and this is not one of the rates listed in FLV_RATE.
> 
> I was able to workaround the problem like this:
> 
>   ARECORD="arecord -r22050 -fS16_LE" recordwin.sh
> 
> (The -f flag is because arecord was defaulting to 8-bit audio; adding this
> made the sound quality *much* better)
> 
> Maybe these should be the defaults?

It highly depends on your soundcards. My machine, for example,
only accepts 48000hz, 44100hz, and 16000hz.  So there should be no default.
But I do understand this should've been documented somewhere.


> (2) As a suggestion, it would be helpful to link to some information on how
> to embed the resulting flash video into a HTML page. pyvnc2swf generates a
> .html page for you, but vnc2flv doesn't, and I didn't have any experience
> working with flv.

Well, I don't have much experience either. Originally, the only
way to publish a generated movie is to post on Youtube. And then I
started playing with these Flash-based players recently, but their
licensing terms still puzzle me a lot. Seems like the whole Flash
community works rather differently from a traditional unix/linux/bsd
community, which I've been familiar with so far.

I'm still building my experience with these. So it will take a bit
more time. Meanwhile, I'll put up a couple of tips you've mentioned.

Yusuke