DBus API for the RecordPage.

[obiwankennedy]

Those commits add DBus support for PageRecord. It allow to start and pause the recording from another software. In my case, teamspeak will start the video recording thank of ssr.

I just need to be able to start the recording by command line. So, I just implemented the PageRecord. I hope it will be an example, and you will be able to do it with all your pages.

You can call all public slots from PageRecord (I changed the visibility of some slots).

So, you can call them like this:
I start ssr, click ok until I reach the RecordPage, then I can send those commands:

dbus-send --type=method_call --session --dest=be.maartenbaert.ssr / local.PageRecord.OnRecordStartPause

dbus-send --type=method_call --session --dest=be.maartenbaert.ssr / local.PageRecord.OnCancel
dbus-send --type=method_call --session --dest=be.maartenbaert.ssr / local.PageRecord.OnSave
dbus-send --type=method_call --session --dest=be.maartenbaert.ssr / local.PageRecord.OnUpdateHotkeyFields
dbus-send --type=method_call --session --dest=be.maartenbaert.ssr / local.PageRecord.OnUpdateHotkey
dbus-send --type=method_call --session --dest=be.maartenbaert.ssr / local.PageRecord.OnUpdateSoundNotifications

Hoping, this modification will be included in the next version. If you have any questions about my work. I strongly recommend to put my work in a new branch. Then you will be able to test it a bit.

Regards
Renaud G.

[MaartenBaert]

This sounds useful, but it does add a dependency on dbus, which may be problematic for some platforms. I'm not sure, I will have to check. In any case this should be an optional feature that can be disabled with configure flags.

There are also a number of problems regarding reentrancy of some slots, the system tray patch created similar problems that were tricky to find. I will need to take a look at that too once I have some time. I will definitely look into this, but I don't have much time now.

[test2a]

hey. any updates on this front? its been 5 years

[obiwankennedy]

I no longer use ssr to record my games, so, I won't make any change in those commit. It helped a lot, synchronizing sound and video but now I find a way to start both at the same time with proper quality.

[MaartenBaert]

I did not merge this because at the time, there were issues with how the dbus functions can be called at arbitrary points in time, which can screw up the internal state of SSR quite badly. I recently fixed this, but there's now a way to control SSR through stdin, which makes the dbus interface largely redundant:
#749 (comment)