pyvnc2swf – screen recording tool

Last Updated on July 12, 2021

Pyvnc2swf is a cross-platform screen recording tool.

The sofware captures screen motion through the VNC protocol and generates a Shockwave Flash (SWF) movie.

Pyvnc2swf suite comes with three separate Python programs:

1) vnc2swf.py – a program captures a VNC sessions and records it in either SWF or VNCLog format. This is a VNC client and communicates directly with a VNC server. A user need to start a VNC server in advance

2) edit.py – Movie editor (This is NOT a general SWF file editor. It only supports movies generated by vnc2swf

3) play.py – Simple movie viewer

Features include:

• Recording:
  • Capture VNC sessions and record to either SWF or VNCLog format.
  • Encode movies to FLV, SWF5, SWF7 or MPEG formats.
  • Record the whole screen.
  • Record a specific area by pointing out its dimensions.
  • Creates an SWF file and an HTML file with the SWF embedded and looping endlessly.
  • Captures via VNC and will therefore capture any desktop that you can connect to via VNC. It can therefore capture a GNOME, KDE, Xfce etc desktop.
  • Use it to screencast Compiz.
• Movie editor – for editing or reorganizing one or multiple movies generated by vnc2swf.py:
  • Supports converting a .vnc file into .swf movie.
  • Change the encoding method.
  • Attach MP3 audio to a movie.
  • Extract images from a movie.
  • Resampling/scaling/clipping a movie image.
• Simple movie viewer for SWF or VNC files.
• Add seek bar to recording.

Website: www.unixuser.org
Support:
Developer: Yusuke Shinyama
License: GNU GPL

pyvnc2swf is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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