Need advice on creating a screen capture app

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Hey guysLet me start with what I'm trying to achieve. I want to be able to record the screen as the user interacts with it and be able to save that sequence as a video file to either the installDir or the photo roll. In itself it sounds simple, but I've done a ton of research on this and it appears that it is only doable in AIR for desktop (which bundles FFMPEG and VLC or RED5 which doesn't look like it's being developed anymore) or by using native Objective-C.Does anyone here know if there is indeed a way to achieve this using Flash CS6 and AIR 3.2+?Here's the link to the "How To" for desktop: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flex/articles/air_screenrecording.html And here's some resource I found for doing it natively in C: http://codethink.no-ip.org/wordpress/archives/673Any advice from someone who has experience with this would be greatly appreciated.

paul_robertson · Answer

Unfortunateyl there's no way to do screen recording using just AIR. It's possible that you could write/obtain an ANE for that. In the desktop app example he's just including a separate app that does the screen recording, and calling that app from the AIR app.

Depending on the content you want to record, you might be able to "fake" it by recording the user's interactions and replaying those. (That's how Adobe Captivate works to some extent -- it records static images and then replays the user's mouse movement.)

You can take a snapshot of a screen using BitmapData.draw(). However, it doesn't work for non-display objects, such as StageWebView, StageVideo, Stage3D, etc.

Paul Robertson

Adobe Developer Relations/Documentation

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