vnc2swf - Screen Recorder (original) (raw)

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Vnc2swf is a cross-platform screen recording tool for ShockWave Flash (swf) or Flash Video (flv) format.

**Update:**Development of vnc2swf is now superseded by its successor, vnc2flv. (2009/10/03)

Download:

Questions or Comments:

Write tovnc2swf-users@lists.sourceforge.net. (Here is the archiveand how to subscribe)

Recent changes

Sample Movie

• Gnomine (250KBytes, with audio)(original version)
• Emacs (300KBytes)
• Mac OS X (5MBytes)
• Windows 2000 (2.2MBytes, with audio)
• SLIME on Linux (1.3MBytes, with audio)
• Others...

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the difference between Python version and C version?

Vnc2swf comes with two different implementations:

• Python version (pyvnc2swf):
  • Runs on many platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows.
  • Has more functions (e.g. editing, adding a seekbar).
  • Is being actively developed.
• C version (vnc2swf):
  • Only runs on platforms which support X11 (i.e. Unix, Linux or Mac OS X).
    NOTE: The latest version no longer needs Ming.
  • Has a vnc viewer.
  • Simple and lightweight.

For both versions, you need to install at least one VNC server:

• XVnc,
• WinVNC,
• TightVNC,
• OSXVnc,
• x11vnc, or
• GNOME Remote Desktop (Vino)

Additionally, for Python version, you need Python and Pygame package. For more information, see pyvnc2swf page.

Output movies are garbled!

Several users reported they had a garbled movie when they used ATI binary drivers for the X server. Please switch to the open source one.

Could you add this new feature?

Recently I've received lots of feature requests. Unfortunately, some of them are hard to implement because of the nature of this software, including:

• Recording mouse click. (VNC doesn't send mouse click information)
• Recording key stroke. (VNC doesn't send this, too)
• Supporting OGG format instead of MP3. (SWF file doesn't support this.)

License

Vnc2swf comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Author

Yusuke Shinyama (For questions or comments, please write tothe mailing listso that we can share them!)

Links

• RealVNC
• TightVNC
• UltraVNC
• Macromedia Flash
• GPLFlash
• x11vnc
• Vncrec
• FreshMeat vnc2swf project page
• Sourceforge vnc2swf project page (Browse CVS)

Last Modified: Sat Oct 3 09:57:02 JST 2009

Yusuke Shinyama