I feel like I'm getting close, but the generated SWF is only 70 bytes. Any ideas about the Socket errors / Broken pipe?

# get pygame something like http://juliaelman.com/blog/2013/04/02/installing-pygame-on-osx-mountain-lion/
brew install sdl sdl_ttf sdl_image sdl_mixer hg
pip install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame

# get castro
pip install castro

# Turn on VNC
* System Preferences > Sharing
* Enable Screen Sharing
* Allow access for all users
* Computer Settings > Enabled "VNC viewers may control screen with password" and set a password

# write an encrypted ~/.vnc/passwd file with your vnc password
mkdir ~/.vnc
cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/trinitronx/vncpasswd.py.git
cd vncpasswd.py/
./vncpasswd.py -f ~/.vnc/passwd your-vnc-password

# encrypted password there seems legit
cat ~/.vnc/passwd  | base64
29g8/XJ6FFg=

# try it out
cd /tmp
python -c "import castro; castro.test()"

Recording a 10 second video...

10 Connected: localhost:5900, protocol_version=3.3, preferred_encoding=(0, -232, -239)
9 VNC Screen: size=5440x2340, name='Jason\xe2\x80\x99s MacBook Pro'
Output movie size: 5440x2340
Creating movie: '/var/folders/qz/4yw7g_b560j9ns1hqk86tyrr0000gn/T/castro-video.swf': version=5, size=5440x2340, framerate=12, compression=None
Socket error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
8 Connected: localhost:5900, protocol_version=3.3, preferred_encoding=(0, -232, -239)
VNC Screen: size=5440x2340, name='Jason\xe2\x80\x99s MacBook Pro'
RFB error: Connection closed unexpectedly.
7 Connected: localhost:5900, protocol_version=3.3, preferred_encoding=(0, -232, -239)
6 VNC Screen: size=5440x2340, name='Jason\xe2\x80\x99s MacBook Pro'
RFB error: Connection closed unexpectedly.
5 Connected: localhost:5900, protocol_version=3.3, preferred_encoding=(0, -232, -239)
VNC Screen: size=5440x2340, name='Jason\xe2\x80\x99s MacBook Pro'
RFB error: Connection closed unexpectedly.
Writing: /var/folders/qz/4yw7g_b560j9ns1hqk86tyrr0000gn/T/castro-video.html...

ls -lah /var/folders/qz/4yw7g_b560j9ns1hqk86tyrr0000gn/T/castro-video.swf
-rw-r--r--  1 jason  staff    70B Nov 19 15:29 /var/folders/qz/4yw7g_b560j9ns1hqk86tyrr0000gn/T/castro-video.swf

Any idea why "pip install castro" on Ubuntu tries to download pygame for Osx?

Bad news, It does not support Python3 yet.

Here's my code---
import castro
video = castro.Castro()
video.start()

The error is -

Socket error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
Process Process-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 258, in _bootstrap
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 114, in run
self._target(_self._args, *_self._kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/castro-1.0.6-py2.6.egg/castro/lib/pyvnc2swf/vnc2swf.py", line 611, in main
merge=merge, debug=debug, reconnect=reconnect)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/castro-1.0.6-py2.6.egg/castro/lib/pyvnc2swf/vnc2swf.py", line 429, in vnc2swf
client.loop()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/castro-1.0.6-py2.6.egg/castro/lib/pyvnc2swf/rfb.py", line 489, in loop
if not self.loop1(): break
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/castro-1.0.6-py2.6.egg/castro/lib/pyvnc2swf/rfb.py", line 276, in loop1
self.request_update()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/castro-1.0.6-py2.6.egg/castro/lib/pyvnc2swf/rfb.py", line 551, in request_update
self.send('\x03\x01' + pack('>HHHH', *self.clipping))
AttributeError: RFBNetworkClient instance has no attribute 'clipping'

Finding files... done.
Importing test modules ... done.

Connected: localhost:5901, protocol_version=3.8, preferred_encoding=(0, -232, -239)
VNC Screen: size=1024x768, name="anuj's X desktop (gs-2671:1)"
Output movie size: 1024x768
Creating movie: '/tmp/castro-video.swf': version=5, size=1024x768, framerate=12, compression=None
Writing: /tmp/castro-video.html...
Running ffmpeg: encoding and creating keyframes
ffmpeg version 3.3.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3)
configuration: --extra-libs=-ldl --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-avresample --disable-debug --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --disable-decoder=amrnb --disable-decoder=amrwb --enable-libpulse --enable-libfreetype --enable-gnutls --disable-ffserver --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libvpx --enable-libspeex --enable-libass --enable-avisynth --enable-libsoxr --enable-libxvid --enable-libvidstab --enable-libwavpack --enable-nvenc --enable-libzimg
libavutil 55. 58.100 / 55. 58.100
libavcodec 57. 89.100 / 57. 89.100
libavformat 57. 71.100 / 57. 71.100
libavdevice 57. 6.100 / 57. 6.100
libavfilter 6. 82.100 / 6. 82.100
libavresample 3. 5. 0 / 3. 5. 0
libswscale 4. 6.100 / 4. 6.100
libswresample 2. 7.100 / 2. 7.100
libpostproc 54. 5.100 / 54. 5.100
Option 'sameq' was removed. If you are looking for an option to preserve the quality (which is not what -sameq was for), use -qscale 0 or an equivalent quality factor option.
Failed to set value '1' for option 'sameq': Invalid argument
Error parsing global options: Invalid argument
Getting Duration:

ERROR: test_my (examples.recording_test.mypms)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/anuj/workspace/parallel_wd/examples/recording_test.py", line 27, in tearDown
self.video.process()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/castro-1.0.6-py2.7.egg/castro/init.py", line 99, in process
self.calc_duration()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/castro-1.0.6-py2.7.egg/castro/init.py", line 125, in calc_duration
self.duration = int(round(flv_data[flv_data.keys()[0]]['duration']))
TypeError: string indices must be integers, not str

Ran 1 test in 10.715s

FAILED (errors=1)

If I do this:
>>> c = Castro(filename = "my-cool-screencast.swf")
... everything is great.

BUT, if I do this:
>>> c = Castro(filename = "my-cool-screencast.vnc")

... I get this traceback:
>>> Process Process-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/processing-0.52-py2.5-linux-i686.eg
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/processing-0.52-py2.5-linux-i686.eg
self._target(_self._args, *_self._kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/castro-1.0-py2.5.egg/castro/lib/pyv
merge=merge, debug=debug)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/castro-1.0-py2.5.egg/castro/lib/pyv
stream.close()
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'stream' referenced before assignment

Just try running 'python -c "import castro"' on windows 7

I get the following traceback message when trying to run a module that imports castro:

tests/examples/test_website.py:4: in
from castro import Castro
E File "/Users/derek/dev/v3/lib/python3.11/site-packages/castro/init.py", line 110
E print "Running ffmpeg: encoding and creating keyframes"
E ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
E SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)?

I see 4 print statements missing the parens. I'm running python 3.11.2 on OSX 12.6.3.

Hi hugs, I'm trying to start a video using your lib but I'm facing this error who is very annoying

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 258, in _bootstrap
self.run()
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.8_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 114, in run
self._target(_self._args, *_self._kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/castro-1.0.6-py2.7.egg/castro/lib/pyvnc2swf/vnc2swf.py", line 611, in main
merge=merge, debug=debug, reconnect=reconnect)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/castro-1.0.6-py2.7.egg/castro/lib/pyvnc2swf/vnc2swf.py", line 429, in vnc2swf
client.loop()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/castro-1.0.6-py2.7.egg/castro/lib/pyvnc2swf/rfb.py", line 489, in loop
if not self.loop1(): break
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/castro-1.0.6-py2.7.egg/castro/lib/pyvnc2swf/rfb.py", line 276, in loop1
self.request_update()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/castro-1.0.6-py2.7.egg/castro/lib/pyvnc2swf/rfb.py", line 551, in request_update
self.send('\x03\x01' + pack('>HHHH', *self.clipping))
AttributeError: RFBNetworkClient instance has no attribute 'clipping'

Here is my code for the video

from selenium import webdriver, selenium
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import castro

class Video(object):
def init(self, _args, *_kwargs):
self.verificationErrors = []
self.video = castro.Castro()
self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
super(Video, self).init()

def manager_video(self):
    self.video.start()
    self.driver.get('http://www.n1ght.com')
    element = self.driver.find_element_by_id("appendedInputButton")
    element.send_keys("brussel")
    self.driver.close()
    self.video.stop()
    self.video.process()

I normally installed all dependancies so don't understand why it's not working when I do video.start()

Thank you in advance

Just instaled castro in my project, where I use python 3.6 and got following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/unittest/loader.py", line 428, in _find_test_path
module = self._get_module_from_name(name)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/unittest/loader.py", line 369, in _get_module_from_name
import(name)
File "/app/src/test_auth.py", line 1, in
from .base import SeleniumTestCase
File "/app/src/base.py", line 9, in
from castro import Castro
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/castro/init.py", line 110
print "Running ffmpeg: encoding and creating keyframes"
^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

This is obviously python2 syntax, it would be nice to have a package that uses python 3

I think it would be very interesting to create a docker image to be used for the Castro library. I need to use it to record videos in Selenium tests and I can't find any other solution.

python -c "import castro; castro.test()"

Recording a 10 second video...

10 Connected: localhost:5900, protocol_version=3.8, preferred_encoding=(0, -232, -239)
VNC Screen: size=4960x1921, name='beast'
Output movie size: 4960x1921
Creating movie: 'c:\users\matt\appdata\local\temp\castro-video.swf': version=5, size=4960x1921, framerate=12, compression=None
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Process Process-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\python27\lib\multiprocessing\process.py", line 232, in _bootstrap
self.run()
File "c:\python27\lib\multiprocessing\process.py", line 88, in run
self._target(_self._args, *_self._kwargs)
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\castro\lib\pyvnc2swf\vnc2swf.py", line 611, in main
merge=merge, debug=debug, reconnect=reconnect)
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\castro\lib\pyvnc2swf\vnc2swf.py", line 429, in vnc2swf
client.loop()
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\castro\lib\pyvnc2swf\rfb.py", line 489, in loop
if not self.loop1(): break
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\castro\lib\pyvnc2swf\rfb.py", line 448, in loop1
self.finish_update()
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\castro\lib\pyvnc2swf\rfb.py", line 136, in finish_update
self.fb.update_screen(time.time())
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\castro\lib\pyvnc2swf\rfb.py", line 839, in update_screen
self.stream.next_frame()
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\castro\lib\pyvnc2swf\output.py", line 564, in next_frame
self.add_object(self.screen.get_image(x0, y0, w, h), depth, x0, y0)
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\castro\lib\pyvnc2swf\output.py", line 531, in add_object
self.place_object2(self.define_shape(w, h, data), x, y, depth)
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\castro\lib\pyvnc2swf\output.py", line 431, in define_shape
self.writer.write_shape(3, [(0,(20,20)),(1,(w_20,0)),(1,(0,h_20)),(1,(-w_20,0)),(1,(0,-h_20))], fillstyle=1)
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\castro\lib\pyvnc2swf\swf.py", line 708, in write_shape
self.writebits(4, n-2)
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\castro\lib\pyvnc2swf\swf.py", line 545, in writebits
assert 0 <= x and x < (1<<bits)
AssertionError

The swf file is created, (37k), but is unplayable.

It also creates a large number (1 per second, approximately) of python.exe processes until the original processes is terminated.