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Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React

You're reading from   Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React Build desktop applications with web technologies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788295697
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Sheiko Sheiko
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
1. Creating a File Explorer with NW.js-Planning, Designing, and Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a File Explorer with NW.js – Enhancement and Delivery 3. Creating a Chat System with Electron and React – Planning, Designing, and Development 4. Creating a Chat System with Electron and React – Enhancement, Testing, and Delivery 5. Creating a Screen Capturer with NW.js, React, and Redux – Planning, Design, and Development 6. Creating a Screen Capturer with NW.js: Enhancement, Tooling, and Testing 7. Creating RSS Aggregator with Electron, TypeScript , React, and Redux: Planning, Design, and Development 8. Creating RSS Aggregator with Electron, TypeScript, React, and Redux: Development

Recording a screencast


In fact, while building the service for taking screenshots, we have done most of the work for screencast recording. We already have the MediaStream object delivered by webkitGetUserMedia. We just need a way to define the start and end of recording and save the collected frames in a video file. That is where we can benefit from the MediaStream Recording API, which captures the data produced by MedaStream or HTMLMediaElement (for example, <video>) so that we can save it. So, we modify the service again:

./js/Service/Capturer.js

//... 
const toBuffer = require( "blob-to-buffer" ); 
//... 
start( desktopStreamId ){ 
    navigator.webkitGetUserMedia(/* constaints */, ( stream ) => { 
        let chunks = []; 
        this.dom.video.srcObject = stream; 
        this.mediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder( stream ); 
        this.mediaRecorder.onstop = ( e ) => { 
          const blob = new Blob( chunks, { type: "video/webm" }); 
          toBuffer( blob, ( err, buffer...
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