I have used this to create video FAQs when I do a GUI app for clients that pay for my work. It adds that bit of professional touch

First we have to install the ming libraries. This lets us create flash movies. NOTE: vnc2swf does not work with ming v.3 at the time of writting this



Now that our ming library is installed.. Lets download and compile vnc2swf which we will use to grab a vnc session and turn it into a flash movie file.



Now that vncrec is installed. We have to start a vncserver. You can use any vncserver you want. I assume you have one up and running. So now we run the following command as the user that started the XServer



Now you should have a demo.swf file in the same directory you ran that command in. NICE! You should be able to view that in a browser now or some flash viewer.

Now we can add some nice tags to improve our little flash file



From there we can import it into a webpage by using the following code

totally cool Jy ! now all i gotta do is try it out, can you post a swf file you have created with this method here just to see what its like ?

cheers

anyweb

http://homer.meso.com/crap/demo.swf

Here it is embeded in html.. looks much better

http://homer.meso.com/crap/test.html

i'd have to re-size my vncserer's desktop in order for it to look better.

will this howto work for fedora core release 3 ?

it should

nice!

got my mouse doing an act
it worked on FC3!

hijinks, how did you just get it to show a certian part of the screen not the whole thing?

tried in FC4 and got this error:

[root@js2 vnc2swf-0.4.2]# make
gcc -DHAVE_LIBZ=1 -DHAVE_LIBMING=1 -I. -DVNC_SOCKLEN_T=socklen_t -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -Wall -g -c argsresources.c
gcc -DHAVE_LIBZ=1 -DHAVE_LIBMING=1 -I. -DVNC_SOCKLEN_T=socklen_t -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -Wall -g -c colour.c
colour.c: In function ‘SetupBGR233Map’:
colour.c:449: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 3 of ‘XFreeColors’ differ in signedness
gcc -DHAVE_LIBZ=1 -DHAVE_LIBMING=1 -I. -DVNC_SOCKLEN_T=socklen_t -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -Wall -g -c desktop.c
desktop.c:32: error: static declaration of ‘gc’ follows non-static declaration
vncviewer.h:161: error: previous declaration of ‘gc’ was here
desktop.c:33: error: static declaration of ‘srcGC’ follows non-static declaration
vncviewer.h:162: error: previous declaration of ‘srcGC’ was here
desktop.c:33: error: static declaration of ‘dstGC’ follows non-static declaration
vncviewer.h:162: error: previous declaration of ‘dstGC’ was here
desktop.c:34: error: static declaration of ‘desktopWin’ follows non-static declaration
vncviewer.h:160: error: previous declaration of ‘desktopWin’ was here
make: *** [desktop.o] Error 1


what do u suggest?

looks like one of the strange things that happens with gcc. as the developers of gcc strive to increase more strict conformance to the 'rules' of c code they inadvertantly break sloppy code. so as strange as it sounds you probably have 'too new' a version of gcc. this is a fault with vnc2swf, not gcc, the coding isn't up to scratch, hopefully the author is aware of it and will release a new patch to fix it.

i notice that there is a python version of this utility.. maybe give it a try? http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/

Another program you could use is called Wink: www.debugmode.com/wink

ty i'll check it out //both