Stepok Development

There are many users wrote mail to ask us adding a feature that recording sound from speaker. And we have to reply them one by one.

This issue is not a problem at all because SCREEN2EXE or other sound recording applications are recording ‘default sound inputting channel, which for most case is microphone.

So this is an issue about how to set the ‘sound inputting channel’ in system. So it is not part of the software can do, but related.

First of all, you should know some basic knowledge about windows sound mixer. The Windows sound mixer which you can set in ‘Control Panel’ of system, include 2 pages. 1 for speaker output called settings of playing, and 2 for sound inputting called settings for recording.

To record speaker sound, simply set input source by check it to channel ‘Stereo Mixer’ which means the sound sending to the speaker. On your computer, it may be other similar name, which depends on your sound card. Anyway, ‘mixer’ means mix sound up and sending to speaker.

But, bad news to tell you that some sound card just not support ‘mixer’ as inputting. That means forget it, you can not record speaker sound, change to another computer please….

Now we know how to record speaker sound, can we record speaker sound with microphone together? Sure you can! Check both speaker mixer channel and microphone channel…wait a moment, seems I CAN NOT do this?! The system doesn’t allow me to check on 2 or more channels in inputting page.

You are right; the system can not record 2 channels at same time. But there is still a way to do this. Switch to ‘speaker output’ page, and this page allows you play sound from multiple channels at same time, (that’s what mixer do). Then you can check microphone channel to make the microphone inputting played though speaker, mixed with the original speaker sound. And then record ‘mixer’ as sound source. Now, problem solved, you can record both of them. To be noticed, in default , microphone channel does not appear in ‘speaker’ page, you can set it in the property page where you switch between ‘speaker’ page and ‘inputting’ page.

A demo movie show the above steps,

We have introduced the new version of Screen Anytime, computer monitoring software recording user sessions into video log files. Screen Anytime 4.0 features a built-in HTTP server allowing managers to view records remotely using an Internet browser.

The advantage is very clear. In before version, managers have to login the server with RDP to view and play the records. It is trouble, slow and hard for managing the users on server (because you need add account for every one who need to see the records). Now, they can just open their browser to visit address like, http://<server address>:3580, to manage and play the records online. And you can create Screen Anytime users that is used to login the web system and different from the server users.

And this build-in http service is totally independent, that means you don’t need IIS running at all. We cut unnecessary features and protocols to make sure it is more safe from attacking.

In future version, we will enhance these online access features to add more functions include configuration, reports and statistics.

In this upgrading from v3.0 to v3.1, we have 3 major updates include,

First Support hierarchy structure of centralization servers. Build a log file network with multiple level to support thousands of terminals.

There is a figure to show the structure of Screen Anytime log network:

So, the folder&file structure on a center server will be more complex than before, (include local and remote, and remote include sub-servers, and so on …). So we provide a new interface to choose a computer on server edition, that is a list you ser can click on group or single computer.

Second, Optimize capture speed to occupy less CPU time. About 50-70% CPU load compare to precious version. This is great because in precious version, our customers complain that the server edition can only support recording 20-30 RDP sessions at one time, otherwise, the CPU goes 100% full. Now, it can support more after optimizing.

Last, fixed a bug cause black screen. This bug happens when user have tun setup but have not click on the new ‘Application’ page(a bug comes with last upgrade).

We have also optimized setup file to make sure user can directly upgrade without uninstall the old.

Registered user can download this new version from the link they get in email after purchased.