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mouser:
Thinking about an ideal final tool:

It seems to me that what would be ideal for ESR is to have a standalone helper tool interfaced with the program, that will take the current video (regardless of what format it was recorded in), and do two things:

1. Convert it to desired format for actual use.  Depending on what format the file was recorded in, this could be as simple as leaving the file as is, to converting it to multiple formats for different uses.  In an ideal case, one would record the original using a lossless codec specialized for screen capture, and then convert to format for the desired end use.  Common target uses would be youtube, email attachment, or a format suitable for web upload, like webm, mp4, flash.

2. Help user share final video.  This could include some combination of email, upload to youtube, upload via ftp, prepare html web page for showing the video (using something like FlowPlayer).

As I see it, this is really a standalone tool, not something to be built into ESR itself.  ESR already has a system for configuring 3rd party tools and invoking them, so the work their is already done.

Based on my preliminary investigation, it seems to me the best candidate backend commandline processor for this stuff is a combination of ffmpeg and avisynth.  Unfortunately while ffmpeg can be used portable, avisynth has no such easy option, but is needed if one wants to be able to process arbitrary codec encodings.

So now what's left is to decide whether it's worth me (or someone else here) writing a custom tool for this, or whether ESR should simply recommend that users install some other 3rd party converter tool for this task -- god knows there are enough of them already.

If anyone feels like writing this tool, let me know -- I'd be happy to lead the cheers from the background.

kunkel321:
This sounds pretty complicated to my little brain. 
I'd recommend having the necessary background components bundled with ESR, if possible. 
I don't do a lot of screen-casting, much less the developer-side of it, so I can't really offer expert advice...

What I can say is that I want to click a button to record some screen stuff, then click a second button to have the video uploaded someplace for sharing. 

Of course I like all the different pref options too--and will experiment with most of them.  But video tools can be pretty confusing if they rely on external components right out-of-the-box ...  Complicated for me, at least.   :huh:

cmpm:
For the programer, or something beyond me.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/241399/Convert-Video-to-Flash-Video-flv-and-progressive-s

For the rest of us, including me :)
https://www.moyeamedia.com/video-to-flash/

or online

http://www.convertfiles.com/

kilele:
I've just read Vlastimil's suggestion for a quick and dirty screencasting tool with limited options: low quality, only one format (*.mov), a few buttons, send to youtube, gdrive, skydrive or dropbox.
Something like the java applets of screencast-o-matic or screenr, but simpler with very few options to use from the commandline and accepting parameters to directly capture windows controls (useful for developers to invoke it as a plugin as explained by Vlastimil)
This reference might be of help to develop such application:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3113174/screencapture-using-java-applet

Edit:
suggestion: add commandline parameters to run with a minimal gui

Renegade:
The beta that I've been playing with seems to work pretty well. The audio there is mic, and not direct, but I just made the clip to illustrate something that irks me... videos that jump 60 dB in volume...  >:(

0011 20121123_001134.avi (773.5 kB - downloaded 386 times.)

Very annoying.  >:(

(Been adding in some new stuff for GDT - audio from video is one. It's not the actual video, but the waveforms and live EQ visualisations.)

But the screencasting there works very nicely so far. :) Can't wait for the final!

...Based on my preliminary investigation, it seems to me the best candidate backend commandline processor for this stuff is a combination of ffmpeg and avisynth.  Unfortunately while ffmpeg can be used portable, avisynth has no such easy option, but is needed if one wants to be able to process arbitrary codec encodings.

So now what's left is to decide whether it's worth me (or someone else here) writing a custom tool for this, or whether ESR should simply recommend that users install some other 3rd party converter tool for this task -- god knows there are enough of them already.

If anyone feels like writing this tool, let me know -- I'd be happy to lead the cheers from the background.
-mouser (November 13, 2012, 02:51 AM)
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I'm currently actually working on some encoding and transcoding, so I'll post back later to see if I can swing something. No promises.

I've done a few things for posting multimedia before, so I'll look into that as well. Again, no promises.

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