Replay Video Scheduler user guide

 

 

 

 

This user guide relates to Replay Video Capture version 10.4.1.0 (RVCSetup10.4.1.0) or higher.

 

Replay Video scheduler allows you to schedule one or more screen capture recordings. The scheduler can memorize web site links, screen coordinates, start/end times as well as different recording patterns like daily, weekly, day of week. The scheduled recording settings are saved in the file schedule.log located in Replay Video setup folder. (%appdata%\Replay Video Capture 10\schedule.log)

 

Before opening the Scheduler, open the browser, maximize browser window, mark the video area,  copy URL from browser address bar. Make sure "Maximize" option is checked under Tools, Scheduler menu.

 

How to schedule a recording (brief)

·       open the Scheduler, select a browser name from the Program Name dropdown list, type a file name under File Name

·       paste URL in the Scheduler URL/File Path. You can close browser now.

·       check one of the Repeat options, click Set Current Time, set the recording Start Time and Duration

·       click Save Schedule to save settings and open the View list, select Enable when asked

 

(required if you need to reset coordinates, add a click and a delay to start playing movie)

·       click Test URL to reopen browser and play the video. Find out if you need to setup a click and a connection time (see below)

·       click Get Position button if you need to resize the video marked area and to save the video parent window size and position (see below)

·       set the Click and the Connection time options (see below)

 

 

How to schedule a recording (detailed)

 

1. Open Replay Video, open the web site you want to record, run the video, and mark the recording area (use Get Window or Show Markers buttons) - the recording coordinates are displayed on Replay Video main screen. Copy the web page URL from the browser address bar.


2. Open the Scheduler - click Settings, Tools, Scheduler. Scheduler menu opens

 

 

“Open now”
Opens the Schedule. The last file name shown in Settings, My Recording and the last saved video window coordinates are shown on the Scheduler main screen. If there are recordings already scheduled but none of them is within the recording time frame (start time > current time < end time) the Scheduler enters the “waiting” state waiting for a scheduled recording to trigger. If one of the scheduled recordings is in this range the scheduler enters the “counting” mode counting the time to finish recording. In this case, Replay Video begins recording from the current time until the end time is reached.

 

“Open when Replay Video Capture starts”

Replay Video opens the scheduler at startup and automatically starts/stops recordings at the scheduled times. Note: recording begins at the current time and stops when the end time is reached.

 

 “Close browser when recording times out”

Note: when selecting this option, if you have multiple tabs in your browser all these tabs will be closed when the Scheduler closes the browser. To avoid this select a browser name from the “Program Name” dropdown list. When this is done, the Scheduler opens a new browser window instead of a new tab in the existing browser.

 

“Maximize recording window”
When opening the browser from a URL the size and position of the browser window may be different than the one you used when marking the video area. One way to overcome this situation is to use a maximized browser window when marking the recording area and then open the scheduled window maximized for recording.

 

Mark the video window before opening the Scheduler. The recording video coordinates are imported from Replay Video and displayed on the Scheduler under Window Position as shown below. You can use Get Position to resize the marked area if necessary. Replay Video will detect if the parent window is a maximized window. The Maximized checkbox will be checked in this case.

 

 

 

NOT using “Maximize recording window” (recommended)
In this case we recommend resizing the browser window to a smaller size (not maximized) and mark the video window before opening the Scheduler (recommended on slower computers). In the Scheduler click Get Position. The marked area will be highlighted and can be resized if needed. When the marked area is clicked, the new video window coordinates and the browser window coordinates are displayed in the Scheduler separated by two dashes as shown below.

 



When opening the browser URL, both size and position of the browser window and the marked area will be correctly setup.

 

 

3. Paste the web page address to the Scheduler URL/File Path. Now you can close the browser.

 

If you want to keep the browser open and record an event on this window, leave the URL/File Path blank.

 

4. Setup the Program Name, the File Name, the Repeat Mode, click Set Current Time, setup the Start Time, the Duration then click Save Schedule. Scheduled recorded files with the same names are not  overwritten. The prefix [1],[2]…will be appended to similar names. When asked to Enable Scheduler click YES if you want to begin waiting or NO if you want to make changes. Whether or not you make any changes after answering NO you need to click Save Schedule again and Enable the scheduler if you want to start waiting.

 

If the start time is behind the current time the recording starts immediately.

 

Movie recording options

 

“Maximize”
This option is automatically checked when using the Get Position if the video parent window is maximized. For non-maximized windows, this option is unchecked. In this case, both the video window and the parent window coordinates will be displayed as shown above.

 

“Click” – movie needs a mouse click to start
When recording a video (movie) from a URL the video may not always start unless the mouse is clicked. If this option is checked Replay Video simulates a mouse click on the right side of the parent video window (browser). This setup requires some experiments: use the Test URL to open the video (movie) and find out if a mouse click is required to start.

 

“Connection time”
When recording a video (movie) from a URL the video opens a few seconds after the parent  window (browser window) opens. Replay Video begins recording after the specified number of seconds (connection time) following the parent window opening. This setup requires some experiments: use the Test URL to open the video (movie) and find out how many seconds are needed to begin playing the video.

 

Please note that even if this time was set to zero, the Scheduler needs at least 5 seconds before recording begins. This is the time required to setup the browser and the video window.

 

Important: 

 

1.       Always SAVE the settings before enabling the scheduler (click Save Schedule)

 

2.       If you need to change previous settings

a)      click ‘View Scheduler’

b)      double click the scheduled item, do not enable scheduler when asked

c)       previous settings are now displayed, make the changes

d)      click Save Schedule then click YES or NO to ENABLE/DISABLE scheduler

 

3.       If you need to schedule multiple recordings, repeat the steps above for all items but DO NOT ENABLE the Scheduler until you saved the last item. Multiple recordings cannot run simultaneously, only one at the time and at least 30 seconds apart from each other.

 

Use a http or https address in the URL field to open a web page and record the marked video. If the Program Name field is blank the scheduler opens your default browser (not recommended, see above closing multiple tabs). Open the Program Name drop down list to select one of the popular browser names:  chrome, chrome canary, firefox, msedge. If you want another program or browser not listed here to be opened you can enter the program full Windows path under Program Name.

 

Note: When recording movies from Prime Video (Amazon), play then stop the movie, reload the browser page, right click the ‘Continue Watching’ button then click ‘Copy link address’ to get the URL. Use this URL for the scheduled recording, in some cases this opens the movie without the need of a mouse click. You may change the clip start time by modifying URL autoplay extension or adding ?autoplay=1&t=0. (0 seconds  to start from the beginning or another number of seconds for another start time (?autoplay=1&t=100 for example).

 

You can also use the ?autoplay=1&t=0 with Netflix URLs. Play then Stop the movie, copy URL from browser address bar. Sometimes you can delete all the text following the “?” in the URL and replace with autoplay=1&t=0 to start the movie at your selected time.

 

Enabling / disabling the scheduler

The Scheduler can be enabled/disabled using the Enable / Disable buttons on the main screen. However, a recording in progress needs to be rescheduled otherwise recording will restart when Scheduler opens (see below).

 

Stop a scheduled recording in progress

·       click STOP on Replay Video to stop recording, close the browser, or stop the video

·       restore the Scheduler window, under Start Time click a month before current month

·       click Save Schedule, click NO when asked to Enable scheduler

You can later reschedule the recording.

 

Changing / deleting schedules

Click View Scheduler. In the dialog window that opens select one scheduled recording, right click, and select Change or Delete from the pop-up menu. Select more items and click Delete to delete the entire selection.