суббота, 2 января 2010 г.

Skreener 0.1 Preview Release

For the last 4 month me and several other people (see the sourcecode) had been working on a new piece of software called Skreener, to FLOSS-replace the proprietary and GTK-based Wink, tutorial and presentation creating software.

Skreener is most suited for showing how to use software, and not for showing animation effects. The main difference between Skreener and recordmydesktop (and the like) is that Skreener takes usual screenshots only once per second, and mouse cursor smooth movement is then restored during the playback. For this purpose SVG format is used (Wink generates Flash movies). This allows you to easily cleanup recorded screencast by removing non-essential frames, making the mouse cursor go strictly to the target position.

Today I decided to release the first public preview release of Skreener, just for the case if someone else decides that he is fed up with uncontributable Wink. Basic functionality is implemented, To be done is adding comments (continuing only when user clicks 'continue'), polishing.

example screencast (archived, 800 kb)
example screencast (immediate, safari-displayable, firefox-not, other browsers flicker)

On the project page, .deb package and win32 build are available.

6 комментариев:

Jesper T. комментирует...

Works fine in Linux using Arora :)

Nick Shaforostoff комментирует...

on my system (r600, radeon, mesa 7.6, kernel 2.6.32) Arora doesn't move the cursor as smoothly as all other browsers do.

Unknown комментирует...

Works fine in Arora on an Intel video chip.

You might consider embedding the image files into the SVG. It is possible because Inkscape can do that. Good luck with developement

Jos van den Oever комментирует...

Embedding raster images in SVG can be done with data uris.

It goes a little something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Uri

Capi Etheriel комментирует...

where is source code?

Nick Shaforostoff комментирует...

> where is source code?
you can find it behind the link 'Git repository': http://gitorious.org/skreener