java-screen-recorder provides platform independent screen capture and playback, producing high quality screen recordings using an internal lossless compression algorithm. The recordings can be played back with the included screen player application, or optionally converted to the QT movie format, using the included screen converter application.
The output video can be post-processed to other formats, using a video conversion tool such as ffmpeg.
The screen recorder, player and converter tools are all self contained jar files, requiring only the Java Runtime Environment for execution. These tools operate independently of any other external software codecs and libraries, to provide true platform independent video capture.
java-screen-recorder is licensed under the MIT License.
Source code is available from the Subversion repository at the project's homepage: http://code.google.com/p/java-screen-recorder/
Each of the tools within the suite can be compiled by running the ant build.xml script located in the directory of each tool. The Java Developers Kit must be installed prior to compilation.
The projects are preconfigured for eclipse. To import into the eclipse workspace, select File->Import and choose to import an existing project.
To run screen recorder, execute the following command: java -jar screen_recorder.jar
The screen cursor can optionally be changed to white, using the option: java -jar screen_recorder.jar -white_cursor
To run screen player, execute the following command: java -jar screen_player.jar
Screen converter is a tool to be convert screen recordings to the QuickTime movie format, which can then be post-processed to other formats using a video conversion tool such as ffmpeg.
To run the screen converter, execute the following command: java -jar screen_converter.jar <screen_cap_file.cap>