Record Skype Webcam?
This may not be the right place to put this question, however, I have a client that does quite a bit of conferencing etc via Skype, using the webcam built into a 17" Macbook Pro.
They would like to be able to record the incoming Skype webcam and audio, so I can then bring it into FCP and pretty it up a bit. I can do the local stuff later, with a higher quality set up.
Is there a program that will record the incoming Skype webcam and audio directly onto the MBP hard drive?
Thank you.
A quick google brings up SkypeCap and Call Recorder ... both look like the sort of thing you're after.
Plus you can of course also use any number of screen recording software to capture the video ... the lastest Snow Leopard's Quicktime X application can do this. Its "free" if you have OS X 10.6 although its perhaps not as fully featured as some of the third party alternatives like ScreeFlow, iShowU and Snapz Pro
You can also use scan convertor hardware such as the Matrox MXO to capture it directly to regular video recording hardware.
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I have tried to use the iMovie application to record video sessions via Skype but I am not sure if this is possible. The Help instruction tsay to click the mode switch to set iMovie to built-in camera mode but i do not see this function. Does this mean I do not have the correct version of iMovie or that my computer is not compatible for this function?
You cannot use your built-in iSight for video in two applications (Skype and iMovie) at the same time.
I do not see any built-in ability to record video calls in Skype's video features page:
http://tinyurl.com/239gqgf
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If you are determined to use iMovie, I can suggest two ways to record a Skype video call using iMovie:
(1) Run Skype on one Mac
• Run iMovie on a second Mac pointing at the first Mac's display.
(2) Connect an external webcam to your Mac. (With more than one camera, iMovie will show both.)
• Launch iMovie and select the external cam as the video recording source.
• Point the external cam at your Mac's display.
• Launch Skype and verify that your built-in iSight is the cam that Skype will use.
• Start your Skype call and set the window size, brightness, and location.
• Adjust the iMovie cam to show the part of your display you want to record and start recording.
Call Recorder seems a much better ways to record your Skype videos than either of these.
*For Snow Leopard users wanting to record Skype video*: you can record your entire display regardless of what app is running by using the QuickTimeX (version 10.x) that is bundled with Mac OS X 10.6.x. (10.5.8's QuickTime does not offer this screen recording feature.) QTX records only the full screen, so a product like Call Recorder may still be of interest to SL users who want to record less than full screen calls.
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I'm trying to build / modify an application to record from webcam and microphone, in a web browser and save it to an FMS 5.4.2 server to stream via web and iOS
recording as a flv file works fine and it plays back just fine in firefox / any browser
I can steam f4v files over http as filename.f4v.m3u8 and that works fine with the samples that come with FMS from my record folder (/opt/adobe/fms/applications/record/streams/)
My flash web application can record to the FMS server, the file it records has the .f4v file extension, has content (i see the file size), and has time in quicktime (4 or 5 seconds - just a test) but it doesn't play - the screen is black and never starts.
I know i'm right on the edge of figuring this out, I just don't know what I'm missing or whats wrong (i'm a php programmer, not action script)
any ideas ?
here is the code i'm working with:
package com
import fl.controls.ProgressBar;
import fl.controls.ProgressBarMode;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.Event;
import com.NetConnector
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.media.Camera;
import flash.media.Microphone;
import flash.media.Video;
import flash.net.navigateToURL;
import flash.net.NetConnection;
import flash.net.NetStream;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLLoaderDataFormat;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.URLRequestMethod;
import flash.net.URLVariables;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.utils.setTimeout;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.media.H264Level;
import flash.media.H264Profile;
import flash.media.H264VideoStreamSettings;
import flash.media.VideoCodec;
* @author Alexander (flash2you) < >
public class Recorder extends MovieClip
private var dataHolder:DataHolder = DataHolder.getInstance()
public var layer:MovieClip
public var activityLevel_pb:ProgressBar
public var aguja:MovieClip
public var aguja2:MovieClip
public var publishButton:MovieClip
public var timer_txt:TextField
public var recordStatus:MovieClip
public var recordBtn:MovieClip
private var netStream:NetStream
private var microphone:Microphone = Microphone.getMicrophone()
private var camera:Camera = Camera.getCamera()
public var video:Video
private var timer:Timer = new Timer(100)
private var clockTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000)
public var published:Boolean = false
private var isRecording:Boolean = false
private var minutero = 0;
private var crono = 0;
private var records = 0;
public var settings_mc:MovieClip
public static var recorder:Recorder
public var settings_icon:MovieClip
private var limitTimer:Timer
public function Recorder()
Recorder.recorder = this;
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, on$timer)
clockTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, on$clockTimer)
//visible = false
recordBtn.buttonMode = true
recordBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK , recordBtn$click)
recordBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, recordBtn$over)
recordBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, recordBtn$out)
addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, onAddedToStage)
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limitTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, onLimitTimerHandler)
private function onLimitTimerHandler(e:TimerEvent):void
stopPublish()
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private function onAddedToStage(e:Event):void
removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, onAddedToStage);
init()
* function for set up camera from settings module
public function setCamera(_camera:Camera) {
camera = _camera
addCameraSettings()
video.width = 1280;
video.height = 720;
video.attachCamera(camera)
if (netStream){
netStream.attachCamera(camera)
public function setMicrophone(mic:Microphone) {
microphone = mic;
if (netStream){
netStream.attachAudio(microphone)
addMicSettings()
private function addMicSettings() {
microphone.setUseEchoSuppression(true);
microphone.setSilenceLevel(1)
private function addCameraSettings():void
camera.setMode(1280, 720, 25);
camera.setLoopback(true);
camera.setQuality(0, 100);
public function init() {
startConnect()
* main function for connection
private function startConnect() {
visible = true
timer_txt.htmlText = "<b>00:00</b>";
initCamera()
initMicropone()
var nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection()
nc.connect(null)
netStream = new NetStream(nc)
netStream.attachAudio(microphone)
video.attachCamera(camera)
layer.visible = false
publishButton.gotoAndStop(1);
activityLevel_pb.mode = ProgressBarMode.MANUAL;
recordStatus.gotoAndStop("noRecord")
timer.start()
connection.addEventListener(NetConnector.CONNECTED, connectionComplete)
connection.startConnection()
public function get connection():NetConnector {
return dataHolder.connection
private function on$timer(e:TimerEvent) {
activityLevel_pb.setProgress(microphone.activityLevel, 100)
* when connection to your stream server done
private function connectionComplete(e:Event = null) {
netStream = new NetStream(connection)
netStream.attachAudio(microphone)
netStream.attachCamera(camera)
* add 0 if less then 10secs
private function addLeading(nbr) {
if (nbr<10) {
return ("0"+Math.floor(nbr));
} else {
return (Math.floor(nbr).toString());
* update visible clock, rotate arrows
private function updateTimer() {
timer_txt.htmlText = "<b>"+addLeading(crono/60)+":"+addLeading(crono%60)+"</b>";
aguja.rotation = aguja.rotation+6;
if (addLeading(crono/60)>minutero) {
aguja2.rotation = aguja2.rotation+6;
++minutero;
// end if
++crono;
private function on$clockTimer(e:TimerEvent):void
updateTimer()
private function startClockTimer() {
clockTimer.start()
* update graphics and start recording
private function recordBtn$click(e:MouseEvent):void
if (!isRecording) {
startRecording()
recordStatus.gotoAndStop("record")
recordBtn.visible = false
private function recordBtn$over(e:MouseEvent):void
if (!isRecording) {
this.gotoAndPlay(65);
private function recordBtn$out(e:MouseEvent):void
if (!isRecording) {
this.gotoAndPlay(61);
private function startRecording() {
if (connection.connected){
netStream.publish("mp4:" + dataHolder.filename + ".f4v", "record");
isRecording = true
startClockTimer()
publishButton.gotoAndPlay(2)
publishButton.buttonMode = true
publishButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, publishButton$click);
limitTimer.start()
* redirect to finishURL that was passed via flashvars
private function publishButton$click(e:MouseEvent):void
stopPublish()
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(dataHolder.finishURL)
navigateToURL(request, "_self")
private function stopPublish():void
netStream.close();
connection.close();
limitTimer.stop();
clockTimer.stop();
isRecording = false
recordStatus.gotoAndStop("recordEnd")
updateTimer();
* init microphone
private function initMicropone():void
microphone = Microphone.getMicrophone()
addMicSettings()
* init camera
private function initCamera():void
camera = Camera.getCamera()
addCameraSettings()Hi,
Thanks for the details
First, the quality of the feed we get to the flash player and FMS is highly limited by the capabilities of the webcam that the users have beyond which we cannot improve the quality.
Next, flash player can encode good quality and hence you should probably find more stuff related to how best you can ingest video from a webcam on to the flash player.
- Does recording from server side with asc script will increase the quality ?
No, FMS does not do any type of transcoding/re-encoding stuff. All it does is to 'transmit' and in your case, to flush bits to the disk. So, unless FMS recieves 'Quality', it cannot do much.
- what configurations files on the server can i adjust to increase the recording quality ?
From above, it flows that, there are no configurations on the server that can make your quality grow. The configurations are more to do with delivery. It can be tweaked to improve streaming, reduce latency, quick start and more.
- is there a way to cache locally the stream if the bandwith is not high enough, and when the user stops recording, upload it to the server (it doesn't have to be live or broadcast).
I don't think flash player can do this.
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Hi,
I am planning on creating an application that will need
webcam activity recorded and then uploaded to a database, I know
that flash media server will be needed, but how do I go about
recording a webcam in flash and linking it with flash media server?
Any help would be much appreciated
thanks
GavinThanks!,
have found this code in the documentation, but having a
slight problem
The following example shows how to publish and record a
video, and then play it back.
/* This script publishes and records video.
The recorded file will be named "allAboutMe.flv". */
var my_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
my_nc.connect("rtmp://localhost/allAboutMe/mySpeech");
var publish_ns:NetStream = new NetStream(my_nc);
publish_ns.publish("allAboutMe", "record");
publish_ns.attachVideo(Camera.get());
/* This script plays the recorded file.
Note that no publishing stream is required to play a recorded
file. */
var my_nc:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
my_nc.connect("rtmp://localhost/allAboutMe/mySpeech");
var subscribe_ns:NetStream = new NetStream(my_nc);
subscribe_ns.play("allAboutMe");
my_video.attachVideo(subscribe_ns);// my_video is a Video
object on the Stage.
For this line
my_nc.connect("rtmp://localhost/allAboutMe/mySpeech");
I am having trouble with the location, what do I need to put
in here?, When I entered admin details for fms2 I didn't enter a
server address?, what needs to go in there? and is that meaning
this code won't work at the moment?
thanks
Gavin -
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