Add vnc screen recording. [$100]

[connortechnology]

There is a $100 open bounty on this issue. Add to the bounty at Bountysource.

[justbecause1337]

For this issue are you talking about the ability to record active VNC connections? How in depth would you like the functionality I have a script that does something very similar at the moment. Essentially it just brings back the VNC connection images and drops it into a directory from there ZM can access it.

[chriswiggins]

Is there a reason it needs to be able to record VNC? FFMPEG can easily stream to rtsp if you use -x11grab as a format. Or do you want to be able to record a remote VNC session?

[connortechnology]

Yes, this is for remote sessions. The idea is to make VNC monitoring of desktops easy. So I want it as a proper monitor type in zm, with motion detection, fps choice, etc.

I don't want to give the money to bountysource right now, but I'm willing to pay $500 for this feature.

[knight-of-ni]

This is a good idea. I've seen it called a "virtual camera" in other softwares.
It would be nice if this would work no different than a real camera attached to the zoneminder system.

[justbecause1337]

Okay that's what I thought. I'll take a look at the script I have and the
viability for meeting those requirements.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Andrew Bauer notifications@github.comwrote:

This is a good idea. I've seen it called a "virtual camera" in other
softwares.
It would be nice if this would work no different than a real camera
attached to the zoneminder system.

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Don't try to be deep, just get to the point, somehow someone won't
understand.

[SteveGilvarry]

Closing as part of 2017 cleanup, not saying not valid, just no one is working on this and don't believe anyone is planning on doing so.

[connortechnology]

Re-Opening because there is a bounty on it, and it is a feature that I want.

[stale]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[connortechnology]

Getting tired of reopening this. How do I tell stalebot to NOT auto-close an issue?

[SteveGilvarry]

Label it I think

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[connortechnology]

label it with what? It has three labels and a bounty.

[shawnggraham]

Its so weird that i was just thinking about this the other day and googled it. Why is this something that has not be done yet? This started in 2013? wow. Ill take a look at it.

[eilerjc]

Just looking at setting up my first NVR and was checking to see what zoneminder's bug list looks like...anyways, does the VNC feature need to be completely integrated in zoneminder? A few years ago I used a utility called vncrec to make a movie of a vnc session before. There are several versions floating around, this is the latest I know of (and produced the best results) http://panthema.net/2014/vncrec-rgb/ It would seem like using -movie and ffmpeg but telling ffmpeg to send it to a localhost port like in https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide

Now I haven't tried it, but based on the linkes above maybe something like:
vncrec -movie out.vnc | ffmpeg `vncrec -ffinfo -movie out.vnc` -i - -f rtsp -rtsp_transport tcp rtsp://localhost:8888/live.sdp

But you all probably understand ffmpeg better than I ever could.

[connortechnology]

I too use vncrec for this purpose, but would like it to be nicely integrated. I think vncrec has improved considerably since I posted this feature request, and it may be a simple matter of spawning vncrec as you say. Just need a little web gui glue to put it all together. That would be acceptable.

On the other hand, I think there are now nice vnc libraries that could be integrated to create a proper monitor type.

[jimender2]

@connortechnology Would a user agent install be acceptable? Where you go to a page, download and install something and it streams back to zoneminder?

[connortechnology]

That might be nice, but I'd really like to be able to use existing vnc/apply rdp.

[nasichassoulas]

This feature would be really beneficial to my use case, and will be very valuable over the next few years. I would be willing to contribute towards it if there is a good chance of success on it. Any idea what size bounty would be enough to get this going?

[clbr]

I'd be willing to work on this for the mentioned 700 (Bountysource 200 + @connortechnology's mentioned 500). @connortechnology, is the offer still valid?

I'd use libvncclient, a GPL library, to create the monitor type.

[connortechnology]

@nasichassoulas, we have merged @hax0kartik's PR for this. ZM 1.35.2 has it if you would like to test it, or donate to him for his efforts.