http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/demo.html http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/windows.html http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/emacs.html
These were created with http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ Which currently will not work with windows, nevermind what the page says thats a lie, it doesn't work with windows.. It only works with Linux.. And its questionable how well it works with linux.. Anyhow, if you consider it, VNC records mouse movements, sends them to the remote host, then records the screen information and send it back. Instead people are using programs like robodemo and viewletbuilder to do screen captures and capture mouse events on the same host and neither program hardly works well, especially for events like click-drags and double clicks. However VNC captures all this information (it has to!!) and where does the record go, down the drain, once its served its purpose it goes intot eh bitbucket, the /dev/null.. Why not allow sessions to be recorded and sent directly to flash content? Why, you might ask, because its most optimal.. Currently what I use is camstudio and realvideo, DIVX doesn't even touch full screen captures at modem rates, it breaks down, but realvideo works well at full resolution slow moving video.. So that says, ya-hear linux buffs, the best content format for tutorials is a format that uses a player that is packaged with tons of spyware.. I currently have no choice but to use this content format, I tried about 10 different major formats and none of them touched Realvideo for content preservation, even the realvideo content was very close to MJPEG recording, which is flawless.. But the truth is this is the best way to do it.. DIVX doesn't even approach the quality of realvideo at 56Kbit bandwidth.. Go to my website at http://www.bl3nder.com/ and check out a tutorial on blender, I use realvideo, and lets see if you can replicate this quality in any flavor of mpeg4 (note MPEG loves fast frames with slow moving content, this content is slow frames with fast changing content), and watch as you will not be able to get below 120kbit without significant loss.. However if you could get vnc to record direct to flash format, it would be a strong case to use vnc to create content without the spyware, acceptable by windows, mac and linux users alike.. I'm doing this because I'm looking to make tutorials for Blender, and wanted to use this as a quick method of creating blender tutorials. Than to writing out in text every step, which as some of you who have tried to learn blender will note, is impossible for some actions like click-MMB-drag-from-left-to-right .. You have to hack flash content created with Robodemo or Viewletbuilder to get such actions to come through, and frankly I would rather write a description, but the best way is something that goes the speed of the video/mouse event capture.. And I think it would allow the creation of visual instruction for utilization of many open source and commercial packages. IT would reduce the amount of times you have to tell 100 newbies the same piece of information or how to do a particular procedure which can't be described without much interaction with each newbie.. Its possible that VNC sessions could be modified like a piano instruction program to instruct newbies how to use a program by replicating the major events of a session that you perform, like double clicking on a icon, adjusting a slider, typing in some information, etc.. Anyhow.. If I sound obnoxious, I'm personally just frustrated that something "well shaped" doesn't exist yet that performs this function.. But I guess the rule of open source is if its missing, hack your own.. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
