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How to index a recorded session mcrec with meshcentral ? screenshot jpg vs PNG / not obvious/practical how to launch player #1285
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Another thing : in the player when I click "open files" and select an mcrec files nothing happens. Drag and drop an mcrec file works though. |
Tried mcrec.js on the server but it doesn't seem to change the file or create a new one
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Took me a bit to find it too but you can just go to https:/yourmeshsite.com/player.htm to open the player, don't even have to be logged in. It's publicly accessible afaik. |
All valid points. There is a lot more to do in the area of session recordings. I will have to look at what is going wrong with the indexing when using a locally recorded .mcrec file. The .mcrec files are a set of images with position on the screen and time stamps. It's a made up format I created, basically just a network dump of the remote desktop traffic. I will try do a bunch of improvements in this area in the coming weeks. Also, interesting the PNG screenshot, I will fix that right away. |
I updated to 0.5.25 and the player isn't working anymore. "Open File" doesn't open a popup to choose a file (like before), and drag and drop either does nothing or ask me to resave a file (tested with chrome and firefox from linux and windows 10 - this was working before). I don't see a Recordings tab: My config.json :
I have mkdir meshcentral-recordings next to meshcentral-data (seems to be the default recording path). I haven't located yet the source code handling recordings and the tab, do you have a suggestion on where to look and what debugging output function I should call to get something in log.txt ? I noticed in log.txt that the following error is repeated often: 6:44:43 AM - web: 404 Error /scripts/FileSaver.min.js.map
In fileserver.min.js the last line is
I changed FileSaver to filesaver (lowercase) no more 404 but player still isn't working. |
With 0.5.27 I can record sessions again and open file works, thanks! But I'm still unable to activate server session recording. I added a debug trace in webserver.js when it sets the feature:
But while I get LG1 and LG1_b in the logs I don't get LG1_has_recording. In my domain I have:
Do you have a suggestion on where to look (debug code to add) to understand why domain.sessionrecording is null in my meshcentral installation? |
Got it, I got a spurious character in "domains" in my config.json file ... Sorry for the noise. |
Oh good. Thanks for the report. I will close this one, but please open a new issue if needed. I tested the player a bunch of times with drag & drop or "Open File..." button and with "minify":true and different languages and could not see any issue. If there is a problem with the player, please open a new issue and detail your settings, thanks. |
@guerby |
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Hi,
I'm feeling a bit stupid but it took me a good 30 minutes to be able to find how to play a mcrec meshplayer session recorded file.
I could not find anything in the user guide, in the blog there are some screenshots but they do not show how to launch the player:
https://meshcentral2.blogspot.com/2020/02/meshcentral-desktop-recording-indexing.html
https://meshcentral2.blogspot.com/2019/08/meshcentral2-500k-downloads-session.html
I've had no luck as to find where is located the player in the meshcentral web UI.
Until ... I first remote controlled an unrelated computer and then right clicked on the recording camera icon in the top bottom and it proposed me "Open Player" ...
Did I miss a more obvious way to launch the viewer from the meshcentral web UI ? The camera icon appears only when the remote desktop is active, but I think having to remote control a computer just to view a recorded session is not optimal nor obvious.
I found out VLC and mplayer do not recognize the mcrec format.
Also I don't have the fast forward and backward icons, and when I click somewhere in the red bar it doesn't move the video
In my config.json I have :
I find nothing in /opt/meshcentral (777 perm mode) when I record or upload mcrec files, did I miss something?
PS: small issue screenshots are named ".jpg" but it seems they are PNG formatted:
Thanks again!
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