Organising a sweat session, need some tips

[AceLosesKing]

Wouldn't remote desktop be the best app for this..?

I know nothing about stuff like this, so any help is appreciated. The "film my desktop" idea seems best.

[Glyn Parsons]

like i said mikogo is an awesome program for this...

[mr_smooth81]

UltraVNC is another fantastic program for doing this, only a small download and free

Used to use it when I worked on a retail help desk, works a treat

[bennymacca]

does that allow recording though?

[mr_smooth81]

does that allow recording though?

can't rememebr tbh, i think it does, but it's been a year since i used it

[bennymacca]

i think the recording is the best way to go.

so we need to find a program that records. then we can use http://www.megaupload.com or similar to share with others.

[bennymacca]

this looks interesting.

http://camstudio.org/

[Gaz787]

VNC/RDP type programs would be ok for a realtime solution - more useful in giving remote assistance, and I believe that a desktop recording solution was deemed more appropriate (benny the cunt said something about realtime being a distraction, which seems accurate enough). With regards to that, the only product I have experience is would be FRAPS, which I used to use to make videogame-related videos (I am a gigantic nerd shutup). There are other free alternatives however, such as Camstudio. The issue I think you may encounter is one of file size - often you cannot compress on the fly with these programs and as such are likely to produce a very large files (assuming the play session is in the order of hours) which would make filesharing sites not a good option for sharing, so if you wanted input from those that could not be reached by way of DVD/external HDDs, that might be an issue you'd encounter.

[David]

As long as the remote desktop software doesn't take over the PC and merely "looks" at the desktop.

Also - vnc/rdp are notorious for bandwidth eating - you wouldn't want software (remote or otherwise) sucking up your bandwidth and timing you out of a poker site.

[rcon]

i hear good things about camstudio - haven't used it, but a couple of my developers have and they like it.