Screen Capture Video in LAbView

[bradbb2005]

I am a Labview user, I do not do any of the programming with it, but do advise on what we would like to have changed.

What I am inquiring about is whether or not we can have Labview record the desktop environment on the PC or even just a small part of it. Our management has said they want video of all our testing, and the way we currently do it is with a secondary software. When we set up for testing, We press a "Play" button which starts dumping raw data into a file for export to excel, and when we press "Stop" it ends the data collection, I would like to be able to record the screen from play to stop. We are not using a webcam or external camera, just screen captures.

Is it possible to do this or would I benefit more from a secondary software.

[tst]

LabVIEW itself doesn't have anything like that, so you would need to keep using external software. If that external software has an API, it might be possible to control it programmatically from inside LV, but that would depend on which software you're using.

In principle, you could also use LV to simulate moving the mouse to where the record button is and then simulate clicking it, but I would not recommend that, because it's not very robust. It's probably better to have the user do it themselves. If you do want to do it, you should be able to find some examples if you search for "move mouse" and "simulate mouse".

[zou]

VLC can capture screen and save to video.

It also has many other useful features.

It's free.

http://www.videolan.org/

[bradbb2005]

Thank you, I really appreciate the feedback.