[Sigia-l] recording software

[Andrew McNaughton]

VNC is a freely avilable tool for taking control of a remote desktop.
There are a number of solutions around which allow you to record a
session, and this could be used as a cheap way to record user behaviour.

what you'd be recording is a vnc session.  eg the user is connected to a
'remote' desktop via vnc.  Where you're just trying to get a recording,
this remote desktop should be as local as possible.  On a Unix system this
can easily be set up to connect to a different X session on the same
machine.  I don't imagine that's possible on Windows, but it might be
workable on Mac OS X.  Alternatively something on a fast local network
should work well enough.


Here's some tools which can record vnc sessions.  I haven't
tried these out, just thought I'd suggest the approach:

http://teleteaching.uni-trier.de/ttt.en.html
http://www.sodan.org/~penny/vncrec/
http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/


Andrew McNaughton





On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Karl Fast wrote:

> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:00:59 -0600
> From: Karl Fast <karl.fast at pobox.com>
> To: sigia <sigia-l at asis.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] recording software
>
>
> > Does anyone know anything about video cards that allow you to
> > capture onscreen action? I heard this is an inexpensive alternative
> > to buying a Scan converter...
>
> Another inexpensive option is to do it all with software (though I
> understand the software has gotten more expensive). I wrote a review
> for Boxes & Arrows on some of these tools last fall.
>
>   Recording Screen Activity During Usability Testing
>   http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/recording_screen_activity_during_usability_testing.php
>
> The short version:
>
>   - performance issues are no longer a problem
>   - recording is easy, does not impact performance, and the playback
>     is picture perfect (works very well for think afters)
>   - although the tools are mainly designed for creating tutorials and
>     training videos, they work fine for usability testing
>   - Camtasia is a good choice, Hypercam not bad and much cheaper
>   - there might be some newer tools out there
>
>
> --karl
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