Automatically push screenshare of 'Entire Display' on startup

[fragtion]

Hi

I've been using VDO.Ninja via Webcatalog to broadcast our computer screen, with something like this:

We launch it with: C:\Users\Oceans Tech Booth\AppData\Local\Programs\WebCatalogApps\VDO.Ninja\VDO.Ninja.exe (default shortcut path)

It then opens a link like this:

https://vdo.ninja/?push=ourchurch&screenshare&codec=h264&quality=2&novideo&noaudio&ad=dvs_receive_3_4_dante_virtual_soundcard_&od=realtek_digital_output_realtek_r_audio_&autostart

Unfortunately it's not automatic, as I still need to select the "Entire screen" from the popup window for it to start streaming

So according to VDO.ninja docs, I'm now also trying to do it using the electron capture app (v2.20.0 win) instead - but with that, as soon as I click the green "SELECT SCREEN TO SHARE" button, the whole app starts to hang...?

I do have "--node true" in the shortcut launch parameters ("C:\Users\Oceans Tech Booth\AppData\Local\Programs\elecap\elecap.exe" --node true --url="https://vdo.ninja/?push=ourchurch&screenshare&codec=h264&quality=2&novideo&noaudio&ad=dvs_receive_3_4_dante_virtual_soundcard_&od=realtek_digital_output_realtek_r_audio_")

Using &screenshare=1 instead of &screenshare doesn't seem to work either.

I'm able to share the entire display using a normal browser or the webcatalog implementation, but my goal is to automate this as far as possible

If anyone has any suggestions, please share :)

[steveseguin]

@fragtion There's a good chance I broke screen sharing in the newest update, which I released in a rush to address a mac-system security report.

Since you're not using mac, I'd suggest you try using the previous version: https://github.com/steveseguin/electroncapture/releases/tag/2.19.1

And see if that resolves the issue.

What I am working on that probably broke things is audio-capture for window-capture -- however in my attempts to add audio capture I probably broke the screenn capture.

[fragtion]

That was fast, thanks @steveseguin
Weird, v2.19.6 is behaving the same way:

C:\Users\Oceans Tech Booth\AppData\Local\Programs\elecap\elecap.exe" --node 1
hangs when pressing "SELECT SCREEN TO SHARE"

"C:\Users\Oceans Tech Booth\AppData\Local\Programs\elecap\elecap.exe" --node 1 --url="https://vdo.ninja/?push=ourchurch&ss=1&autostart"
hangs on load (don't even see the electron window show up, just a taskbar icon)

[steveseguin]

I'll take a look then. Thankyou

[fragtion]

Update: v2.19.1 is working well ! Fully automated now. This is already such a huge improvement from the previous workflow

v2.19.6 actually gave some debugging info to stdout when I ran it from cmd rather than shortcut, which may be related? perhaps you find this useful? 🙂 :

C:\Users\Oceans Tech Booth>"C:\Users\Oceans Tech Booth\AppData\Local\Programs\elecap\elecap.exe" --node 1 --url="https://vdo.ninja/?push=ourchurch&ss=1&autostart"

C:\Users\Oceans Tech Booth>
Loading window-audio-capture module...
Error loading window-audio-capture module: Error: Cannot find module './native-modules/window-audio-capture'
Require stack:
- C:\Users\Oceans Tech Booth\AppData\Local\Programs\elecap\resources\app.asar\main.js
-
    at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1232:15)
    at s._resolveFilename (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:129305)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1062:27)
    at c._load (node:electron/js2c/node_init:2:17950)
    at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:322:14)
    at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:227:24)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1318:12)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:136:16)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Oceans Tech Booth\AppData\Local\Programs\elecap\resources\app.asar\main.js:25:24)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1562:14) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    'C:\\Users\\Oceans Tech Booth\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\elecap\\resources\\app.asar\\main.js',
    undefined
  ]
}
requestSingleInstanceLock
(node:16252) [DEP0180] DeprecationWarning: fs.Stats constructor is deprecated.
(Use `elecap --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)

C:\Users\Oceans Tech Booth>

Bonus: please add support for minimizing to tray on launch :) In the meanwhile, I will use a tool called Trayy to assist with this

Thank you so much :)

[steveseguin]

I reverted the broken code parts and built a new version, which still contains the mac security updates.

https://github.com/steveseguin/electroncapture/releases/tag/2.20.1

Thank you for the request about the tray - I wish I saw that 20 minutes ago.

There's no need to update to this version on Windows if using 2.19.1