[webkit-help] rendering a webkit output into a video file

[Pascal]

Hi,

 

I would suggest to have a look on WebKitNix port

Although it is no more maintained, I think Nix have an option to dump rendered frames to PNG files while launching MiniBrowser with –dump-frames option

 

Pascal

 

From: webkit-help-bounces at lists.webkit.org [mailto:webkit-help-bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of Tommy Chheng
Sent: 16 April 2014 16:19
To: webkit-help at lists.webkit.org
Subject: [webkit-help] rendering a webkit output into a video file

 

I'm working on a system to render an HTML5 animation to a video file. So far, we have been able to use phantomjs to output image files at time intervals and combine them together with ffmpeg.

 

This solution mostly works but phantomjs doesn't include features like video tag support or webgl.

 

It looks like webkitgtk+ includes a full stack rendering with video tag(via gstreamer) and webgl support.


 

Where can i start investigating in the code how to use webkitgtk+ to snapshot a rendering of a web page at time intervals?

 

Because we want this to run as an automated process on a headless linux system, screencasting tools are out of the question.

 

Also, to give an analogy, if we have an animation system written in OpenGL, we can easily capture image frames to video using glReadPixels. We want the equivalent "glReadPixels" for webkitgtk. 

 

I noticed some mention of a webkitvideosink from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/slides/webkit.pdf but not much details of how it works.

 

 

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Tommy Chheng 

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