screen capture and movie player applet (not a game)

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#1

This isnt a game I just wanted to show off my latest work.

Iv been working on a screencast applet that records the browser.

Screen cast applet in DEBUG MODE

Its a handy tool for reviewing websites in video, in case you wanted to upload reviews to youtube or something like that.
Currently I only made a frame version that locks onto the window. This has a few issues with pages that dont allow you to access them via a frame.
Ill eventually upload an unlocked version to select custom capture sizes and such.

Movie Player Applet
Working on making an applet that can play movies inside a webpage

Online Webcam Recorder
Also working on a online webcam recorder
Note: It seems that FTP upload doesnt work with Java7 I keep getting a permission exception on the socket.

*Only works on Mac/Windows. I still need to build FFMpeg natives on linux.

#2

Worked ok here.
One problem I did notice that it squished the width in the video. Like it didn’t understand my screen is widescreen.

#3

Thanks for testing it.
It currently records to 640480. So whatever size the frame of the browser is, it will stretch it to 640480.

I need to add a settings popup, Ill add an option to maintain aspect ratio.

#4

Cool idea.

I used it and went to JGO.

It recorded sound through my microphone which is impressive because I’ve never done that before!

It dumped an AVI file which played sound well in windows media player, but the video didn’t work in WMP or real player.

#5

[quote]the video didn’t work in WMP or real player.
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thanks for the info. Iv got heeps of codecs on my computer, so I assume that other people will have the same. I really need to find which codecs most people have installed.

Its currently encoding to mpeg4. Ill try something else.

*changed it to Xvid

#6

recorded a video for youtube using the applet.

Also increased quality over performance as it seems to be performing fast enough.

#7

How do you use this? I clicked record, typed in a random file name to save on my desktop, and after visiting a couple sites, I hit stop and there were no files… :frowning:

#8

can you please run the debug version and try again, and copy/paste the console output so I can try work out what went wrong.

#9

From all the output in the console, there was 1 error: “Unable to find a suitable output format for ‘C:\Users\Roi’”

EDIT: Yes, that seems to be the problem, if I save it to my desktop it doesn’t work. If I save it to my external hard drive it works fine. Weird?

#10

[quote]From all the output in the console, there was 1 error: “Unable to find a suitable output format for ‘C:\Users\Roi’”
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thanks that helps.
it may be a case of not being able to support spaces in folder names.

#11

Ah yes! My full desktop address “C:\Users\Roi Atalla\Desktop” with a space between my user name.

#12

*fixed

it was just a matter of adding quotations to the path.

#13

Awesome thanks :slight_smile:
Btw, I love the new Look-and-Feel! Did you make it yourself or get it from somewhere?

#14

[quote]Awesome thanks :slight_smile:
Btw, I love the new Look-and-Feel! Did you make it yourself or get it from somewhere?
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After searching through a few free look and feels I found one that I liked.

#15

That looks beautiful! Thanks, I might use it as well :smiley:

#16

I made the applet now undockable. Its now useful for more than just browser activity.

#17

Hi, tried this and it records pretty good but wanted to edit using movie maker. MM cannot import due to lack of codec, so I installed the xvid codec you referred to but still no joy. Any ideas?

Thanks, Steve

#18

you may want to install the klite codec pack. It should install any missing codecs.

#19

Are you using Windows Vista/7? Try using this: http://shark007.net

#20

:slight_smile: Thanks KLite did the trick, now I can edit my screen capture with movie maker, just the ticket!