Replay Video Capture Scheduler user guide

 

 

 

 

Important: A new, fully redesigned Scheduler is now available, Replay Video Capture version 10.4.1.0 (Preview here, Download here).

 

Replay Video Capture 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(s) of week. The scheduled recordings are saved in the file schedule.log. This file can be opened from the scheduler.

 

How to schedule recordings

 

1. Open  Replay Video Capture, open the web site you want to record, run the video, and mark the recording area (use Get Video or Mark Video Window) - the recording coordinates and window size are displayed in the WM Capture window.

 

2. Copy the web page address (URL) from the browser address bar. You can close the browser now.

 

3. Paste the web page address from the browser address bar to the Scheduler URL/File Path.

 

Important: If using the Background mode made sure to specify the browser name you’re using to record (chrome, chrome canary, msedge, firefox, WM Browser) under the Program Name. It is a good idea to click Test URL on the Scheduler main screen and make sure the browser that opens supports the Background mode.


4. Open the Scheduler - click Settings, Tools, Scheduler, Open Now. The screen coordinates should be displayed in the Scheduler under Get Position (or Window Position). If the Scheduler was already open copy/paste the coordinates from Replay Video Capture main screen to the Scheduler Window Position (if no coordinates are displayed on Replay Video Capture main screen click Mark Video Window). You can also click Get Position. The marked area will be highlighted and can be resized if needed.

 

Important: Make sure the browser window was maximized when you marked the recording area  and the Maximize option is checked under Tools, Scheduler. This forces the browser to open a maximized window such that the video window matches your saved coordinates.


5. Setup the start/end time and the Repeat Mode then click Save Schedule. When asked click Enable Scheduler.

 

If you're scheduling multiple recordings you can keep the Scheduler disabled until all scheduled recordings are setup and saved. Then click Enable on the Scheduler main screen.

 

If the start time of a recording is behind the current time and the stop time is after the current time the recording starts immediately.

 

If a web page address is used and the Program Name field is blank the scheduler opens your default browser. If you want another program to be opened you can enter the full path or the Windows name of the program under Program Name. For example chrome, firefox or the full path of a program.

 

Note: If the saved screen coordinates are the coordinates of the recording window, not the entire browser window don’t change the browser position and size.

 

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. 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.

 

Opening the scheduler

Open  Replay Video Capture Settings and click Scheduler then click Open Now. When the scheduler opens the file name and the screen coordinates are shown on the scheduler main screen. Files with the same names are not overwritten. The prefix [1],[2]…will be appended to the filename.

 

If there are recordings already scheduled when the Scheduler opens 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 Capture begins recording until the end time is reached.

 

Enabling / disabling the scheduler

The scheduler can be enabled/disabled from  Replay Video Capture Settings. Click Scheduler then check or uncheck the item “Open when  Replay Video Capture starts”. When this item is checked  Replay Video Capture will open the scheduler at startup and automatically start/stop recording at the scheduled times. Otherwise Replay Video Capture will not record any scheduled events unless you manually open the Scheduler.

 

Scheduling multiple recordings

Multiple recordings can be scheduled however the recordings cannot run simultaneously.

 

Changing / deleting schedules

Click View. In the dialog window that opens double click a scheduled recording or right click the scheduled recording name and select Change or Delete from the pop-up menu.