record from VNC, like IP camera

[erpo41]

I would like zoneminder to record the screen of a PC running a VNC server. Is this currently a feature of zoneminder? If not, is there a guide to adding new types of inputs to the program? I'm willing to do some programming...

[marcodefreitas]

I like the idea.
I have some customers who will like it too.

[Flasheart]

Find a way to either serve a jpg via http from the vnc (or local screenshot), zm can then request that and save.

Another way is a screenshot program saving to a shared disk every second or so - and zm fetching it from a local file (mounted shared fs) - but this is less good since inevitably it will load the file at the same time it's being written, resulting in a partial picture.

But yeah - it's doable by zm. All that needs is a way to get a jpg of anything. If you can provide that from your source, zm will work.

[vraa]

Find a way to either serve a jpg via http from the vnc (or local screenshot), zm can then request that and save.

Another way is a screenshot program saving to a shared disk every second or so - and zm fetching it from a local file (mounted shared fs) - but this is less good since inevitably it will load the file at the same time it's being written, resulting in a partial picture.

But yeah - it's doable by zm. All that needs is a way to get a jpg of anything. If you can provide that from your source, zm will work.

I am working on writing a c# .net app to take jpg screenshots of a windows POS screen every second (or something) so ZM can pick it up

I will let you guys know my progress, I really am not a coder, this is my first time using VS2010.net but I think it is relatively easy, hard part will be tuning it so ZM can get the jpgs (not sure if I want to setup http listener through the .net app, or do the shared fs approach)

[marcodefreitas]

I think it can be usefull:
vncsnapshot on sourceforge
What you think?