{"id":226,"date":"2007-02-14T10:11:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T09:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/index.php\/?p=226"},"modified":"2007-02-14T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T09:12:06","slug":"record-desktop-into-flash-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/2007\/02\/record-desktop-into-flash-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Record desktop into Flash video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video is better than words ? Let&#8217;s go for a screencast !<\/p>\n<p>First, get this tar.gz program : <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unixuser.org\/~euske\/vnc2swf\/pyvnc2swf-0.9.1.tar.gz\">http:\/\/www.unixuser.org\/~euske\/vnc2swf\/pyvnc2swf-0.9.1.tar.gz<\/a> and uncompress it into a directory of your choice.<br \/>\nThus, you need to install python-tk with : <em>sudo apt-get install python-tk<\/em> and you also need to install python-pygame with : <em>sudo apt-get install pyton-pygame<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Then, you can launch the GUI with <em>vnc2swf.py<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This tool is simple, it is based onto VNC server (you can of course use VNC Server provided with Gnome). So, you have to launch your VNC server (or configure remote desktop access into Gnome) before start recording your desktop and you have to disable Beryl (if used) and return under Metacity.<br \/>\nAnother great tool included is <em>edit.py<\/em> which one you can resize (for example) your flash video : <em>edit.py -o final.swf -s 0.5 original.swf<\/em>  (50% factor size)<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unixuser.org\/~euske\/vnc2swf\/\">Main page of this tool<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/applications.linux.com\/article.pl?sid=06\/09\/18\/1349218\">Great tutorial about this tool<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video is better than words ? Let&#8217;s go for a screencast ! First, get this tar.gz program : http:\/\/www.unixuser.org\/~euske\/vnc2swf\/pyvnc2swf-0.9.1.tar.gz and uncompress it into a directory of your choice. Thus, you need to install python-tk with : sudo apt-get install python-tk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/2007\/02\/record-desktop-into-flash-video\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dotmana.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}