Screencast

Use case: I want to record a screencast via my browser and make available on my Tiki-powered site. Ex.: report a bug, create some documentation, etc. This will be useful to embed images & videos in wiki pages and make Tiki more like Wink, a Tutorial and Presentation creation software (very nice but not open source)

Basic desired features

• Select part of the screen
  • Pick still image or video
  • audio recording (yes/no)
  • webcam (yes/no)
• Pause during recording
• Replay before uploading
• Convert to .SWF or .FLV (which can played by http://code.google.com/p/flvplayer/)
• Upload as a file to Tiki or Kaltura
• Embedding as wiki syntax or in WYSIWYG (CKEditor)

Ideally

• Be the same tool as for ScreenCapture (still images)
• Voice recording (but we can do this after with Popcorn Maker)
• Add basic annotations (but we can do this after with Popcorn Maker)
  • During the video would really nice. Arrows, circle, text and scribbling (but we can do this after with Popcorn Maker)
• Encode as WebM before uploading (to save bandwidth)
• Save as
  • Animated gif
  • Flash
• Capture webcam

Related:

• Copy-Pasting an image
• ScreenCapture

Options:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screencasting_software
• http://www.ohloh.net/tags/screencast
• http://socialsourcecommons.org/tag/screencapture
• http://socialsourcecommons.org/tag/Screencasting

Perhaps in the future, BigBlueButton (they already have an applet for desktop sharing) or Kaltura (this totally fits in their use case) will offer this, but until then...

This one has great feature set:

• ScreenCastle web screen capture, which uses Skoffer and even a MediaWiki plugin but it's not open source and you can't password-protect your recording. (free to use though)

Also:

• Screencast-O-Matic (This one is really nice!)
• ScreenToaster
• http://screenr.com/
• oEmbed
• http://goview.com/
• http://blog.freescreencast.com/2009/02/13/open-sourcing-the-screencast-recorder/ but no source yet on Castcordia
• http://blog.everythingflex.com/2008/04/24/do-a-screen-capture-with-adobe-air/
• http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/09/11/air-screen-capture-not-so-fast/
• http://screenmail.to/

jCapture

• jCapture

Related links

• http://getsatisfaction.com/kaltura/topics/screencast_one_click_record_user_desktop_to_kaltura
• http://wiki.xuggle.com/Xuggle_Screensharing_Notes
• http://demo.smaxe.com/juv-na-demo-webcam.html

Non-web browser options

• Camtasia by TechSmith, specially on the Mac side. It can be used for benchmarking.
• BB FlashBack Express
• Spark
• http://code.google.com/p/zscreen/
• http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
• JShot is a multiplatform screen capture and uploader application which allows you to capture and annotate a part of your screen and share it via the Internet in one step. Free to use for personal usage.

Last resort

If we can't find something FOSS & Wed-based, we can look into using Jitsi (as part of Tiki Suite) (See also what is being done on the blue.box side)

Related links

• http://www.indoition.com/screencasting-tools-survey.htm
• http://www.notess.com/screencasting/
• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Support/ScreencastsPRD
• BigBlueButton Incorporates Xuggle
  • Since this time, Xuggle changed to LGPL.

• Screencasting | record Screen