Hi Jim I have already done this (2 years ago) with a cheap software named "snagit" able to capture all screen in an AVI file at 2 frames per seconds which is very sufficient for a powerpoint presentation. This powerpoint presentation was then broadcasted by VNC , the asssociated sound was also recorded by snagit as it was transmitted by a videoconferencing software ( "VRVS" )running on the same PC. The trick to get the sound received (with any software) and recorded at the same time by snagit consists in having installed 2 sound cards (I.E the sound card of the mother board plus a SB 128), the first sound card is associated with the videoconferencing software to receive sound ; its line-out is connected on the line-in of the second sound-card. The second sound card is associated with snagit to record. This is tricky but works perfectly (win 98 on a 500Mhz). After this you can use "virtual dub" which is a freeware able to convert your video file into any other video file format , including sound format conversion . I have then converted the original AVI file into Divx for video and mp3 for the sound. The result is approximately 1Mbyte/minute , and we cannot see any compression effect on the slides (which is strange...) this means that you can keep more than 10 hours of conference on a CDrom ... I am sure than we can do better now.
The drawback of snagit is that it creates an intermediate file which is processed when the recording session is finished , the processing can be long.... and risky if you didn't manage enough room on your disk Have also a look at Camtasia which is the big brother of snagit and has much more capabilities. You can download an evaluation version which is fully functionnal. Trick : always make video capture ( with any software ) in a separate , empty and dedicated partition that you can format if necessary , because when a capture crashes you can spoil your file system , and also because when you capture on a blank partition work is much more easy and fast for your PC as it can write cooly and sequentially on the disk. Hope this could help Jean-Marie Theis .... ================================= Jean-Marie Theis Association EURATOM-CEA sur la Fusion DRFC/STEP Bt. 506 13108 Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance Cedex, France Tel. (phone) : + 33 (0) 4 42 25 77 21 Fax : + 33 (0) 4 42 25 26 61 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================= > -----Message d'origine----- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la > part de Jim Rowland > Envoye : mercredi 3 septembre 2003 16:29 > A : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : Recording a VNC session > > > Has anyone recorded a VNC session for playback say in training? Anyone > know of a good third party software that captures a VNC session as a > MPEG or an AVI? > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
